ReviewDeutsches Arzteblatt international2015
Diving medicine in clinical practice.
Review in Deutsches Arzteblatt international, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 34 citations in OpenAlex.
- Clinical and Laboratory Parameters After Drowning and Diving Accidents and Their Association with Survival.Pathophysiology : the official journal of the International Society for Pathophysiology · 2025Article
- Temporomandibular Disorders in Professional Scuba Divers-A Cross-Sectional Study.Dentistry journal · 2025Article
- Barodontalgia and its implications for Navy divers and dentists: A narrative review.Journal of clinical and experimental dentistry · 2024Review
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- An Updated Narrative Review on Ergometric Systems Applied to Date in Assessing Divers' Fitness.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- The effect of medical history and compressor on barotrauma.Journal of public health research · 2021Article
- A survey on the health status of Dutch scuba diving instructors.Diving and hyperbaric medicine · 2021Article
- Traumatic diaphragmatic rupture: delayed presentation following a SCUBA dive.BMJ case reports · 2020Article
- Relationship between oral symptoms during diving work and preventative dental visits in Japanese male occupational divers.Industrial health · 2020Article
- Recommendations for travelling with bronchiectasis: a joint ELF/EMBARC/ERN-Lung collaboration.ERJ open research · 2019Article
- Diving patterns and decompression sickness among South Korean fishery divers.Journal of occupational health · 2019Article
- Sports-related lung injury during breath-hold diving.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2016Review
- Psychological Contraindications.Deutsches Arzteblatt international · 2015Article
- In Reply.Deutsches Arzteblatt international · 2015Article
- Emergency Equipment on Diving Boats.Deutsches Arzteblatt international · 2015Article
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Abstract
backgroundDiving is a popular sport, and some recreational divers have medical risk factors. Their health can be endangered by high extracorporeal (ambient) pressure and its many systemic effects.
methodsWe review relevant publications on free (breath-hold) diving, scuba diving, medical evaluation for diving, barotrauma, decompression sickness, and diving with medical risk factors, which were retrieved by a selective search of PubMed.
resultsFree diving or scuba diving, even at seemingly innocuous depths, puts considerable stress on the cardio - vascular system, ears, and lungs. Unexpected events while diving, diminished functional reserve, and pre-existing medical illnesses increase the risk of a diving accident. An international survey revealed that minor incidents occur in 1.3% of all dives, and decompression accidents in 2 of every 10 000 dives. A properly conducted medical examination to determine diving fitness, followed by appropriate counseling, can make a life-threatening diving accident less likely.
conclusionTo be able to certify diving fitness and give competent medical advice about diving, physicians must be well informed about the physical and physiological changes of diving and the associated risks to health, and they need to know how to perform a medical evaluation of prospective divers. In Germany, any licensed physician may judge a person fit to dive. It is recommended that this be done in adherence to the relevant evaluation standards and recommendations of the medical specialty associations. Randomized controlled trials on the effect of preventive behavior would be desirable, as would a central registry of diving accidents.
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