ArticleEuropean respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society2017
Short- and long-term effects of diving on pulmonary function.
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- Large lungs in divers: a risk for pulmonary barotrauma?Diving and hyperbaric medicine · 2024Article
- Does Decreased Diffusing Capacity of the Lungs for Carbon Monoxide Constitute a Risk of Decompression Sickness in Occupational Divers?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Observational
- Pulmonary oxygen toxicity in occupational diving.Occupational medicine (Oxford, England) · 2023Article
- Pulmonary Effects of One Week of Repeated Recreational Closed-Circuit Rebreather Dives in Cold Water.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2022Article
- Lung function changes in divers after a single deep helium-oxygen dive.Diving and hyperbaric medicine · 2022Article
- Effect of a Single Simulated 500 m Saturation Dive on Lung Function.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Article
- Oxygen-enriched air reduces breathing gas consumption over air.Current research in physiology · 2022Article
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- Environmental Exposures and Asthma in Active Duty Service Members.Current allergy and asthma reports · 2019Review
- The impact of health on professional diver attrition.Diving and hyperbaric medicine · 2019Article
- Long-term changes in spirometry in occupational divers: a 10-25 year audit.Diving and hyperbaric medicine · 2018Article
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Abstract
The diving environment provides a challenge to the lung, including exposure to high ambient pressure, altered gas characteristics and cardiovascular effects on the pulmonary circulation. Several factors associated with diving affect pulmonary function acutely and can potentially cause prolonged effects that may accumulate gradually with repeated diving exposure. Evidence from experimental deep dives and longitudinal studies suggests long-term adverse effects of diving on the lungs in commercial deep divers, such as the development of small airways disease and accelerated loss of lung function. In addition, there is an accumulating body of evidence that diving with self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (scuba) may not be associated with deleterious effects on pulmonary function. Although changes in pulmonary function after single scuba dives have been found to be associated with immersion, ambient cold temperatures and decompression stress, changes in lung function were small and suggest a low likelihood of clinical significance. Recent evidence points to no accelerated loss of lung function in military or recreational scuba divers over time. Thus, the impact of diving on pulmonary function largely depends on factors associated with the individual diving exposure. However, in susceptible subjects clinically relevant worsening of lung function may occur even after single shallow-water scuba dives.
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