gas embolism

Recompression is the most effective, though slow, treatment of gas embolism in divers.

In the final 15 feet before reaching the surface, Wendler suffered a massive gas embolism.

Gas embolism may also arise as a complication.

Symptoms of etarial gas embolism may be present but masked by environmental effects such as hypothermia, or pain from other obvious causes.

This pressure is high enough to prevent ebullism, but evaporation of blood could still cause decompression sickness and gas embolisms if not managed.

In the inner ear, gas embolism can cause hemorrhages, leading to disorientation or vestibular dysfunction.

Refer to the main article arterial gas embolism for the mechanism of injury behind AGE.

Arterial gas embolism (AGE), which is gas bubbles in the bloodstream.

Although Morgagni's cases resulted from gas embolism due to damage to the bowel, the same pathology is seen in decompression illness.

Gas bubble disease (gas embolism)

The risk includes pneumothorax, arterial gas embolism, and mediastinal and subcutanous emphysemas.

Air embolism (also known as a gas embolism) - embolism of air bubbles.

The dynamics and composition of spontaneous, continuous gas embolism in the pig during isobaric gas counterdiffusion.

And that would have been the least of the effects: the emergency depressurization would have caused massive gas embolisms, basically carbonating his blood.

Discrimination between gas embolism and decompression sickness may be difficult for injured divers, and both may occur simultaneously.

Symptoms of decompression sickness may be very similar to, and confused with, symptoms of arterial gas embolism, however, treatment is basically the same.

Gas embolism is a diving disorder suffered by underwater divers who breathe gases at ambient pressure, and can happen in two distinct ways:

DCS and arterial gas embolism are treated very similarly because they are both the result of gas bubbles in the body.

There is also evidence that the number of gas bubbles in a paradoxical gas embolism is correlated with the severity of the headache.

Oxygen first aid treatment is useful for suspected gas embolism casualties or divers who have made fast ascents or missed decompression stops.

Arterial Gas Embolism (AGE) occurs on the arterial side.

The most serious injury is lung barotraumas, which can result in pneumothorax, pneumomediastinum, pneumopericardium, subcutaneous emphysema, and arterial gas embolism.

Central IV lines carry risks of bleeding, infection, gangrene, thromboembolism and gas embolism (see Risks below).

If an arterial gas embolism resulting from patent foramen ovale is suspected, an exam by echocardiography may be performed to diagnose the defect.

The procedure carries a risk of producing gas embolism in the patient and has resulted in the death of one person via this type of accident.