Document ID (ISN) | 47241 |
CIS number |
86-1967 |
Year |
1986 |
Convention or series no. |
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Author(s) |
Vogel H. |
Title |
Diseases due to differences in environmental pressure |
Original title |
Maladies dues à des variations de la pression ambiante [in French] |
Bibliographic information |
Caisse nationale suisse d'assurance en cas d'accidents, case postale, 6002 Luzern, Switzerland, Sep. 1986, n°8, 2 parts, 139p. Illus. 37 ref. |
Abstract |
The 2 parts of this very detailed document present the following subjects: physical principles and laws; sources of risk (diving, high-pressure environments, high altitudes); pathogenesis and clinical tables (barotrauma, effects of gases dissolved in the body under increased pressure, gas bubbles in blood and body tissue during a rapid fall in air pressure, effects of oxygen deprivation, deaths during diving); medical and therapeutic prevention; insurance law; accident rates; legal case studies. |
Descriptors (primary) |
hyperbaric pressure; caissons; high altitude; diving; decompression sickness |
Descriptors (secondary) |
decompression; pathology; bubble formation; air embolism; chokes; fat embolism; decompression osteoarthropathy; work in pressurized atmosphere; compressed air; medical supervision; pathogenesis; barotrauma |
Document type |
E - Books, reports, proceedings |
Subject(s) |
Occupational pathology
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Broad subject area(s) |
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Browse category(ies) |
Hypobaric pressure Hyperbaric pressure
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