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decompression sickness
- Definição1
- In the context of civil aviation operations, this might occur when a person has been exposed to a hyperbaric environment, which has overcompressed inert gases in the body, prior to an ascent to altitude.
- Fonte1
- INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION. Manual of civil aviation medicine. 3rd ed. Montreal, 2012. (Doc. 8984 AN/895).
- Fonte2
- INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION; INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION. IAMSAR manual: international aeronautical and maritime search and rescue manual: volume 2: mission co-ordination. 3rd. ed. Montreal, 2013. (Doc. 9731)
- Nota adicional1
- Acronym in English: DCS.
- Contexto
- Divers with decompression sickness or an air embolism require immediate treatment with hyperbaric oxygen in a recompression chamber. These dive-related injuries are worsened by reduced atmospheric pressure. Aircraft transporting these victims should fly at the lowest safe altitude, which may require taking a less direct route.
- Subárea1
- Aviation Medicine
- Subárea2
- Medical Emergencies
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