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Diving medicine.

D A Jerrard
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Although the diving community attempts to train and educate its members with regard to the dangers of the deep, there are still a significant number of individuals each year who need treatment for painful and life-threatening illness incurred as a result of the dive. The emergency physician needs to identify these individuals quickly, stabilize them, and refer and transport as soon as possible to a recompression chamber.

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D A Jerrard. 1992. Diving medicine.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1559472/

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