Maladies Specific to Technical and Rebreather Divers
Renaldo C, Dituri J, O’Connell B. Hyperbaric Medical Practice, 4th Edition (BEST Publishing). 2017.
What this study found
Technical divers and rebreather divers face failure modes that open-circuit recreational divers do not: hypercapnia from scrubber failure, hyperoxia from wrong-gas switches, hypoxia from loop volume loss, and isobaric counter-diffusion from helium transitions. This chapter catalogs those maladies and their field recognition.
- Role
- Co-author, 2 of 3
- Authors
- Renaldo C, Dituri J, O’Connell B
- Journal
- Hyperbaric Medical Practice, 4th Edition (BEST Publishing)
- Published
- 2017
- Type
- Book chapter
- Field
- Diving physiology
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