| London Diving Chamber - http://londondivingchamber.co.uk London Diving Chamber offers NHS funded recompression for divers with decompression illness. Other services include: all fit to dive, BSAC and HSE medicals; 24 hour adviceline; dry diving and free email travel and diving medicine advice to anyone wherever they are in the world. - [Read more] |
| Midlands Diving Chamber - http://midlandsdivingchamber.co.uk Midlands Diving Chamber (Rugby, Warwickshire) specialises in dive medicine and offers NHS funded recompression to divers with decompression illness. Other services include: all fit to dive, BSAC and HSE dive medicals, 24 hour advice line; dry diving and free email dive medicine advice from anyone anywhere around the world. - [Read more] |
Understanding Decompression Sickness - Causes, Types and SymptomsIt is known as "the bends" and caisson disease, Decompression Sickness (DCS) is an illness that can affect divers and even miners and anyone who is exposed to rapid pressure decreasing within the body. DCS can be defined as a build up of... |
Understanding Decompression Sickness - Risk Factors Involved - Prevention of DCS and The TreatmentWe are not all at the same risk, even if we dive to the same depth and for the same diving conditions as every diver will have their own level of DCS. Therefore two people doing the same dive might end up with one with DCS and the other with no... |