In response to a request I am making this poll. With chambers that will take divers becoming harder to access in "cave country", is IWR something you would have an interest in learning and having as an available tool for yourself.
yes
no
maybe, and I will explain
In response to a request I am making this poll. With chambers that will take divers becoming harder to access in "cave country", is IWR something you would have an interest in learning and having as an available tool for yourself.
"Not all change is improvement...but all improvement is change" Donald Berwick
Thanks, Kelly!
I encourage everyone to read our research article on the topic. It can be downloaded at researchgate.
https://www.researchgate.net/publica..._recompression
I'm surprised no one's teaching it as a specialty yet...
Safe diving.
Rich
One of our authors Joe Dituri teaches it for IANTD
Yes, I was just going to mention this as I remembered him telling us at a CDS workshop in Lake City either this past year or the year before. Very entertaining dude with an interesting background.
I hope never to use IWR (or take a chamber ride) but would like to have the knowledge to use it if necessary. Another tool in the box.
Here are a couple more interesting articles on the subject...
Effect of in-water recompression with oxygen to 6 msw versus normobaric oxygen breathing on bubble formation in divers
In-water Recompression as an Emergency Field Treatment of Decompression Illness
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