Delayed treatment of dysbarism. A retrospective review of 50 cases

K. W. Kizer

doi:10.1001/jama.247.18.2555

Delayed treatment of dysbarism. A retrospective review of 50 cases

K. W. Kizer

Emergency Medicine

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Abstract

Fifty cases of decompression sickness are reviewed in which recompression treatment was delayed for 12 hours or longer after the onset of dysbaric symptoms. Twenty-four patients (48%) had pain only. The other 26 patients (52%) had more serious decompression sickness; 2 patients may have had air embolisms. Ninety percent of the patients recovered either completely (66%) or substantially (24%) with recompression and associated treatment, although standard recompression protocols had to be lengthened in many of the cases.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	2555-2558
Number of pages	4
Journal	Journal of the American Medical Association
Volume	247
Issue number	18
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.247.18.2555
State	Published - 1982

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