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A Retrospective Review of 50 Cases

Kenneth W. Kizer, MD, MPH

JAMA. 1982;247(18):2555-2558.

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; two 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.

(JAMA 1982;247:2555-2558)

Author Affiliations
From the Medical Department, US Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group One, Barbers Point, Hawaii, and the US Navy Undersea Medicine Service, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

Footnotes
The opinions and assertions contained herein are the private ones of the author and should not be construed as representing those of the Department of the Navy.

Reprint requests to 10 San Benito Way, Novato, CA 94947 (Dr Kizer).

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