UK SPORT DIVING MEDICAL COMMITTEE

Newsletters

These are sent out shortly after each committee meeting, usually three times per year and include highlights from recently published diving medicine research and discussions of fitness to dive issues.

All newsletters are available in web page format, and print format (PDF) versions are available from February 2000 onwards. Click the edition date for more information. Note that the case reports are removed from the newsletters published on the website. You will need the Acrobat Reader to read the PDF versions and this is available free from the Adobe website (below).

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Edition Contents
August 1999 Inner and middle ear barotrauma
Arterial gas embolism
Longterm safety of diving
Review of diving accidents at Leicester
Outcome after neurological decompression illness
October 1999 Hyperbaric chamber related decompression illness in a patient with asymptomatic pulmonary sarcoidosis
Barontalgia: dental pain during diving
February 2000 Beware skin bends
Ventriculo-atrial and ventriculo-peritoneal shunts
Exercise testing in the surgery
SSRI's and diving
May 2000 Asthma and diving
Trapped pollen in SCUBA tanks
Patent foramen ovale and migraine
Obesity and diving
Saturation diving and male fertility
Radial keratotomy and diving
A new test for decompression sickness?
October 2000 Submersion or near drowning?
New medical system
Detection of patent foramen ovale
Anticoagulation and diving
Unreliable diving medicals
Risk factors for bubble production
Predicting middle ear barotrauma
Neurological decompression illness
January 2001 What to tell a diver with a PFO
Diving and sinusitis
Ascent rate and bubble formation
Decongestants at pressure
May 2001 Zyban and diving
New medical system
July 2001 Clinical governance
von Willebrand's disease
Provocation testing in asthmatics
Hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia
Respiratory atopy at 50m
Surface temperature and decompression sickness
Inner ear decompression sickness
Vestibular findings in professional divers
January 2002 Children and diving
Diving after stapedectomy
Diving and back injury
Eustachian tube function and free radicals
Heart rate variability
Headache in divers
Diver's mouth syndrome
Extreme human breath-hold diving
Ventriculo-peritoneal shunt performance at pressure
May 2002 Diving incidents
Misleading PFO data
Website changes
Images in diving medicine
Administration fee for medical referees

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