Report on Decompression Illness, Diving Fatalities and Project Dive

More documents

Recommendations

Info

Section 3 - Dive Injuries3.4 Characteristics of Dives Madeby Injured DiversConsistent with previous years, the largest percentage of ourreports came from divers using open-circuit scuba who werebreathing air. However, there is an apparent increase in the percentageof the injured divers in our sample who were injured whilebreathing nitrox. This likely reflects an increase in the use of nitroxoverall. Figure 3.4-1 describes the breathing gas used by the diversincluded in our sample.Figure 3.4-1Breathing gasused in sample(n=292).DAN’s <strong>Report</strong> on Decompression Illness, Diving Fatalities and Project Dive Exploration: 2005 Edition 53
Section 3 - Dive InjuriesSome dives resulting in injury were associated with problems duringthe dives. When problems were reported, a rapid ascent was themost frequent complication. Figure 3.4-2 describes the frequency ofreported problems during the dive series immediately prior to theinjury in our sample. Computer use was approximately 70 percentof our sample, similar to 2002. Less than 20 percent reported planningtheir dives using only tables.Figure 3.4-2Frequencyof reportedproblemsduring dive series(n=297).3.5 Estimate of Diving ExposureThe DAN diving report concentrates on injuries caused by DCI.Because it is primarily the intensity of a diver’s depth-time exposurethat dictates total inert gas uptake, exposure has a large influenceon DCI risk. The number of dives, number of consecutive daysof diving and flying after diving also contribute to exposure relatedrisk. This section of the diving report describes exposure in our sampleof the injured divers.54DAN’s <strong>Report</strong> on Decompression Illness, Diving Fatalities and Project Dive Exploration: 2005 Edition
Page 2 and 3:
Report on Decompre
Page 4 and 5: DAN Regions and Regional Coordinato
Page 6 and 7: DAN - Your DiveSafety AssociationDA
Page 8 and 9: DAN - Your Dive Safety AssociationD
Page 10 and 11: DAN - Your Dive Safety AssociationW
Page 12 and 13: DAN - Your Dive Safety AssociationS
Page 14 and 15: DAN - Your Dive Safety AssociationA
Page 16 and 17: DAN - Your Dive Safety AssociationD
Page 18 and 19: DAN - Your Dive Safety AssociationT
Page 20 and 21: 1. INTRODUCTIONDivers Alert Network
Page 22 and 23: Section 1. Introduction1.3 Diving F
Page 24 and 25: 2.2 PDE 2003This report includes da
Page 26 and 27: Section 2 - Project Dive Exploratio
Page 32 and 33: Figure 2.4-2 describes the breathin
Page 34 and 35: Figures 2.5-2 and 2.5-3 indicate th
Page 36 and 37: Towards the end of the series, PDE
Page 44 and 45: Case #2The diver was a 29-year-old
Page 46 and 47: 3. Dive InjuriesSection 3 - Dive In
Page 48 and 49: Section 3 - Dive InjuriesFigure 3.1
Page 50 and 51: Section 3 - Dive Injuriesmost sever
Page 52 and 53: Section 3 - Dive Injuries3.3 Physic
Page 56 and 57: Section 3 - Dive InjuriesDays in Di
Page 66 and 67: Section 3 - Dive InjuriesCase (diag
Page 68 and 69: 4. Dive FatalitiesDeath while divin
Page 70 and 71: Section 4 - Dive FatalitiesFigure 4
Page 74 and 75: Section 4 - Dive FatalitiesOur data
Page 80 and 81: Section 4 - Dive Fatalities4.4-1Dis
Page 82 and 83: Figure 4.4-2Report
Page 84 and 85: Section 4 - Dive FatalitiesConclusi
Page 86 and 87: Figure 5.1-2 shows the proportion o
Page 88 and 89: Figure 5.1-6 shows a comparison of
Page 90 and 91: Figures 5.2-3 and 5.2-4 show how th
Page 92 and 93: 6. Breath-HoldingIncidents6.1 Intro
Page 94 and 95: Section 6 - Breath-Holding Incident
Page 100 and 101: Appendix A: Dive Injury Case <stron
Page 102 and 103: Appendix A: Injury Case Rep
Page 104 and 105:
Appendix A: Injury Case Rep
Page 106 and 107:
Appendix A: Injury Case Rep
Page 108 and 109:
Appendix B: Dive Fatality Case <str
Page 110 and 111:
Appendix B: Fatality Case R
Page 112 and 113:
Page 114 and 115:
Page 116 and 117:
Page 118 and 119:
Page 120 and 121:
Page 122 and 123:
Page 124 and 125:
Page 126 and 127:
Page 128 and 129:
Page 130 and 131:
Appendix C: Breath-Hold IncidentCas
Page 132 and 133:
Appendix C: Breath-Holding Incident
Page 134 and 135:
Glossarymatical models to compute d
Page 136 and 137:
GlossaryRepresentative SampleA grou
Page 138 and 139:
2004 Publications2004 PublicationsR
Page 140 and 141:
NotesDAN’s Report</strong
Page 142:
The only 24-hour, worldwide dive em
show all

Report on Decompression Illness, Diving Fatalities and Project Dive

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

Delete template?

Save as template?