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ISSN 1833 3516ABN 29 299 823 713
Volume 42 No. 2 June 2012
The Journal of the South Pacifi c Underwater Medicine Society (Incorporated in Victoria) A0020660Band the European Underwater and Baromedical Society
Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine
The normobaric oxygen paradox
hboT for sickle-cell disease crisis
brown-Sequard syndrome from DCS
Are dental cements weakened by pressure cycling?
Airways resistance and scuba in divers with asthma
Cost analysis of hboT for radiation cystitis
SOUTH PACIFIC UNDERWATERMEDICINE SOCIETY
OFFICE HOLDERSPresident
MikeBennett <[email protected]>PastPresident
ChrisAcott <[email protected]>Secretary
KarenRichardson <[email protected]>Treasurer
ShirleyBowen <[email protected]>Education Officer
DavidSmart <[email protected]>Public Officer
AndrewFock <[email protected]>Chairman ANZHMG
DavidSmart <[email protected]>Committee Members
PeterSmith <[email protected]>DeniseBlake <[email protected]>SimonMitchell(co-opted) <[email protected]>
WebmasterGlenHawkins <[email protected]>
ADMINISTRATIONMembership
SteveGoble <[email protected]>
MEMBERSHIPFor further informationonSPUMSand tocompleteamembershipapplication,gototheSociety’swebsite: <www.spums.org.au> TheofficialaddressforSPUMSis: c/oAustralianandNewZealandCollegeofAnaesthetists, 630StKildaRoad,Melbourne,Victoria3004,Australia
EUROPEAN UNDERWATER ANDBAROMEDICAL SOCIETY
DivingandHyperbaricMedicineVolume42No.2June2012
PURPOSES OF THE SOCIETIESTo promote and facilitate the study of all aspects of underwater and hyperbaric medicine
To provide information on underwater and hyperbaric medicineTo publish a journal and to convene members of each Society annually at a scientific conference
OFFICE HOLDERSPresident PeterGermonpré <[email protected]>Vice-President CostantinoBalestra <[email protected]>Immediate Past President AlfBrubakk <[email protected]>Past President NoemiBitterman <[email protected]>Honorary Secretary JoergSchmutz <[email protected]>Member at Large 2011 FionaSharp <[email protected]>Member at Large 2010 Jean-MichelPontier <[email protected]>Member at Large 2009 AndreasMøllerløkken <[email protected]>Liason Officer PhilBryson <[email protected]>
ADMINISTRATIONHonorary Treasurer & Membership Secretary PatriciaWooding <[email protected]> 16BurselmAvenue,Hainault,Ilford Essex,IG63EH,UnitedKingdom Phone & Fax:+44-(0)20-85001778
MEMBERSHIPForfurtherinformationonEUBSandtocompleteamembershipapplicationgototheSociety’swebsite:<www.eubs.org>
Editor-in-Chief: MichaelDavis <[email protected]>c/-HyperbaricMedicineUnitChristchurchHospital,PrivateBag4710Christchurch,NewZealandPhone:+64(0)33640045or(0)3-329-6857Fax:+64(0)3364-0817or(0)3-329-6810
European Editor:PeterMüller <peter.muel [email protected]>
Editorial Board:CostantinoBalestra,BelgiumMichaelBennett,AustraliaAlfBrubakk,NorwayPeterGermonpré,BelgiumJaneHeyworth,AustraliaJacekKot,PolandSimonMitchell,NewZealandNealPollock,USAMartinSayer,UnitedKingdomDavidSmart,Australia
DIVING and HYPERBARIC MEDICINE<www.dhmjournal.com>
Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine is published jointly by the South Pacific Underwater Medicine Societyand the European Underwater and Baromedical Society
Submissions to the Journal should be sent to: <[email protected]>
Editorial AssistantNickyMcNeish <[email protected]>
Journal distribution:SteveGoble <[email protected]>
DivingandHyperbaricMedicineVolume42No.2June2012
DIVING INCIDENT MONITORING STUDY (DIMS)DIMSisanongoingstudyofdivingincidents.Anincidentisanyerrororoccurrencewhichcould,ordid,reducethesafetymarginforadiveronaparticulardive.Pleasereportanonymouslyanyincidentoccurringinyourdiveparty.Mostincidentscausenoharmbutreportingthemwillgivevaluableinformationaboutwhichincidentsarecommon
andwhichtendtoleadtodiverinjury.Usingthisinformationtoalterdiverbehaviourwillmakedivingsafer.
The Diving Incident Report Form can be downloaded from, or an on-line formaccessed at the DAN AP website: <www.danasiapacific.org>
DAN Asia-Pacific DIVE ACCIDENT REPORTING PROJECTThisprojectisanongoinginvestigationseekingtodocumentalltypesandseveritiesofdivingrelatedaccidents.
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CONTENTS
Editorial
SPuMS notices & news
Diving and hyperbaric Medicine is indexed on MEDLINE, SciSearch® and Embase/Scopus
Diving and hyperbaric Medicine Volume 42 No. 2 June 2012
EubS notices & news
original articles
Case reports
Technical report
Critical appraisal
Continuing professional development 122 Courses and meetings
124 Instructions to authors(short version)
65 The Editor’s offering66 The President’s page
67 The ‘normobaric oxygen paradox’: does it increase haemoglobin?David De Bels, Sigrid Theunissen, Jacques Devriendt, Peter Germon-pré, Pierre Lafere, Joseph Valsamis, Thyl Snoeck, Philippe Meeus and Costantino Balestra
72 Effect of a single pool dive on pulmonary function in asthmatic and non-asthmatic diversDragana Ivkovic, Marija Markovic, Bozica Suzic Todorovic, Costantino Balestra, Alessandro Marroni and Milos Zarkovic
78 The effect of environmental pressure changes on the retentive strength of cements for orthodontic bandsMeenal N Gulve, Nitin D Gulve, Renu Shinde and Swapnil J Kolhe
82 hyperbaric oxygen therapy for vaso-occlusive crises in nine patients with sickle-cell diseaseJérôme Stirnemann, Edouard Letellier, Nazmiye Aras, Marc Borne, Louis Brinquin and Olivier Fain
85 hyperbaric critical care patient data management systemPeter Kronlund, Daniel Olsson and Folke Lind
88 MRI features of spinal cord decompression sickness presenting as a brown-Sequard syndromePierre Louge, Emmanuel Gempp and Michel Hugon
92 A cost-analysis case study of radiation cystitis treatment including hyperbaric oxygen therapyDavid Smart and Margaret Wallington
98 A case of spinal epidural haematoma during breath-hold divingLucio Tremolizzo, Mirko Patassini, Massimo Malpieri, Carlo Ferrarese and Ildebrando Appollonio
101 Cerebral venous air embolism treated with hyperbaric oxygen: a case reportPieter A Bothma, Andreas E Brodbeck and Bruce A Smith
104 The addition of hyperbaric oxygenation to specialised wound care for chronic diabetic foot ulcers improved healing and quality of lifeMichael Bennett
Letters to the Editor105 hbo Evidence website
Michael Bennett105 Safety of deep apneic diving
Jochen D Schipke, Thomas Muth and Sinclair Cleveland
106 Reply: Safety will increase with knowledge
Erika Schagatay108 Diving medicine for scuba divers
Carl Edmonds
109 breath-hold divingDavid Cooper and Margaret Walker
113 Diploma of Diving and hyperbaric Medicine
114 Summary minutes of the SPuMS Executive Committee Meeting 12 November 2011 at the Prince of Wales hospital, Randwick
116 Australian and New Zealand hyperbaric Medicine Group Chairman’s report, April 2012
118 ANZCACertificateinDivingandhyperbaric Medicine
120 38th EubS Annual Scientific Meeting 2012
121 EubS General Assembly 2012121 Candidates for Vice-President
and Member at Large 2012
The world as it is111 New hyperbaric facilities for
the Prince of Wales hospital, SydneyRob Turner
112 Diving-related fatalities and decompression illness in the Asia-Pacificregion2010John Lippmann