CNS oxygen toxicity in closed-circuit diving: Signs and symptoms before loss of consciousness

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 77, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1153-1157

  Arieli, Ran ^a   Arieli, Yehuda ^a   Daskalovic, Yochanan ^a   Eynan, Mirit ^a   Abramovich, Amir ^a  

^a ISRAEL NAVAL MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Diving accidents; Hyperbaric oxygen; Risk; Symptoms

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ACCIDENT; ARTICLE; CARBON DIOXIDE BREATHING; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLOSED CIRCUIT OXYGEN DIVING; CONFUSION; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DIVING; DIZZINESS; EQUIPMENT; FACE MUSCLE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPERVENTILATION; INTERVIEW; LIMB CONVULSION; LIMB DISEASE; MUSCLE TWITCH; OXYGEN TOXICITY; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; SYMPTOM; WEAKNESS;

ACCIDENTS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DIVING; HUMANS; OXYGEN; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

EID: 33750445620     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. 2 Eur J Appl Physiol 1999; 80:598-603.
2. Arieli R, Shochat T, Adir Y. CNS toxicity in closed-circuit oxygen diving: symptoms reported from 2527 dives. Aviat Space Environ Med 2006; 77:526-32.
3. Butler FK Jr, Thalmann ED. Central nervous system oxygen toxicity in closed circuit scuba divers II. Undersea Biomed Res 1986; 13:193-223.
4. Childs CM. Unexplained loss of consciousness in divers. In: Smith G, ed. Proceedings of the Sixth International Congress on Hyperbaric Medicine; 1977 Aug 31-Sep 2; Aberdeen, Scotland. Aberdeen, Scotland: Aberdeen University Press; 1977:373-6.
5. Donald KW. Oxygen poisoning in man. Part I. Br Med J 1947; 1:667-72.
6. 2. Aviat Space Environ Med 2003; 74:537-45.
7. Harabin AL. Human central nervous system oxygen toxicity data from 1945 to 1986. Bethesda, MD: Naval Medical Research Institute; 1993. Report No: NMRI 1993 Jan.; 93-03.
8. Harabin AL, Survanshi SS, Homer LD. A model for predicting central nervous system oxygen toxicity from hyperbaric oxygen exposures in humans. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol 1995; 132:19-26.
9. Leitch DR. A study of unusual incidents in a well-documented series of dives. Aviat Space Environ Med 1981; 52:618-24.
10. Morrison JB, Florio JT, Butt WS. Observations after loss of consciousness under water. Undersea Biomed Res 1978; 5:179-87.
11. Nashimoto I, Ikeda T, Mochizuki T. Central nervous system oxygen toxicity in the use of enriched air nitrox for deep harbor diving. In: Naraki N, Mohri M, eds. Proceedings of the 15th Meeting of the United States-Japan Cooperative Program in Natural Resources (UJNR) Panel on Diving Physiology; 1999 Dec 4-5; Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo, Japan: Japan Marine Science and Technology Center; 2000:3-8.
12. Piantadosi CA, Clinton RL, Thalmann ED. Prolonged oxygen exposures in immersed exercising divers at 25 fsw (1.76 ATA). Undersea Biomed Res 1979; 6:347-56.
13. U.S. Department of the Navy. Closed-circuit oxygen UBA diving. In: U.S. Navy diving manual, revision 4. Volume 4. Closed circuit and semiclosed circuit diving operations, chapter 18. Washington, DC: Naval Sea Systems Command; 1999. NAVSEA 0910-LP-100-3199.