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Emergency Treatment While under Pressure

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The Physician’s Guide to Diving Medicine

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The ingestion, inhalation, or injection of either physician-prescribed or over-the-counter substances prior to entering a hyperbaric environment may result in an untoward (adverse or hazardous) reaction. Drug-induced physiological and psychological responses are often altered in the undersea environment. The known and recognized metabolic and excretion patterns of pharmacologically active substances may be significantly and pathologically altered once the diver becomes pressurized. An understanding of the types of changes that occur, the implications of these changes, and the relationships between and among drugs, the environment, and the diver are critical if therapeutic accidents are to be avoided.

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Walsh, J.M., Ginzburg, H.M., Nicodemus, H.F. (1984). Emergency Treatment While under Pressure. In: Shilling, C.W., Carlston, C.B., Mathias, R.A. (eds) The Physician’s Guide to Diving Medicine. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2671-7_10

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