Disease Information for Decompression sickness
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A condition occurring as a result of exposure to a rapid fall in ambient pressure. Gases, nitrogen in particular, come out of solution and form bubbles in body fluid and blood. These gas bubbles accumulate in joint spaces and the peripheral circulation impairing tissue oxygenation causing disorientation, severe pain, and potentially death.
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Demographics & Risk Factors[next]
- Occupational Factors
- Event, Activity, Behavioral & Seasonal Factors
- Sex & Age Groups
- Population/Adult/all
- Population/Adult-Aged Only
- Population/Male
- Population/Man patient
- Population/Young adult
Clinical Manifestations[previous][top][next]
- Disease Progression
- Course/Acute
- Course/Acute only
- Onset/Abrupt/Sudden
- Signs & Symptoms
- Man
- Young Adult
- Acute Chest Pain
- Chest Pain
- Chest pain,substernal//midline
- Chokes/syndrome decompression sickness
- Non-Pleuritic Chest Pain
- Slow pulse/Bradycardia
- Tachycardia/Fast heart rate
- Anesthetic area/skin
- Burning blebs/sudden appearance/skin
- Burning/stinging skin sensations/diffuse
- Cutaneous mottling
- Non-pruritic rash
- Painful/pruritic/blotchy red rash/torso
- Painful/tender rash
- Pruritis/Itching
- Purpura
- Rash
- Abdominal Pain
- Painful vomiting
- Muscle Pain
- Myalgias
- Pain in Extremities/Melalgias
- Tender or painful muscles/Myalgias
- Altered mental status/Mental status change
- Ataxia
- Ataxia/Staggering Gait
- CNS symptoms/signs
- Cognitive defect
- Confusion/agitation on exam
- Confusion/Disoriented
- Dizziness/Dizzy
- Dysarthria
- Dysphasia/Aphasia
- Headache
- Hemianesthesia
- Hemisensory defects
- Impaired judgement/signs
- Local numbness
- Monoplegia, arm
- Monoplegia, leg
- Multiple paralysis/multiplegia, assymetric
- Neurological symptoms/signs
- Numbness/distal fingers and toes
- Numbness/one-sided
- Paresthesias
- Patchy hypesthesea/numb areas
- Personality change
- Scotomata
- Seizures
- Stroke syndrome/signs
- Stupor/poor reponse to stimulus
- Sudden unconsciousness
- Unable to tandem walk/straight line
- Unconscious/Narcosis status
- Vertigo
- Bronchospasm signs
- Chest pain exacerbated on deep breathing
- Chest pain/non-cardiac
- Cough
- Cough, acute
- Cough, dry/non-productive
- Dyspnea
- Painful cough
- Rapid Breathing
- Shortness of breath/SOB
- Tachypnea/Increased respiratory rate
- Wheezing
- Personality changes/gradual
- Arthralgias
- Arthritis and Diarrhea
- Arthritis with Abdominal Pain
- Back Pain Severe
- Bone Pain
- Joint Pains
- Acute severe/total body pain
- Total body pain/truncal/extremities
- Amaurosis fugats/transient blindness-vision loss
- Blurred vision
- Diplopia/Double vision
- Fleeting Blindness
- Disease Progression
Laboratory Tests[previous][top][next]
- Abnormal Lab Findings (Non Measured)
- Abnormal Lab Findings - Increased
Diagnostic Test Results[previous][top][next]
- EKG (ECG)
- X-RAY
Associated Diseases & Rule outs[previous][top][next]
- Associated Disease & Complications
- Acid reflux aspiration/recurrent
- Acidosis, metabolic
- Air embolism/arterial
- Aseptic necrosis/femur head/hip
- Avascular necrosis bone/process
- Blindness
- Cardiac arrest
- Cardiac arrhythmias
- Cerebral infarct/encephalomalacia
- Cerebral vascular accident
- Coma/Unconscious
- Convulsions (grand mal)
- Deafness
- Deafness, conduction type
- Deafness, sensorineural
- Death/Sudden death
- Edema
- Emphysema, mediastinal
- Emphysema, subcutaneous
- Hemiparesis
- Hypotension/Low blood pressure
- Livedo reticularis
- Lymphedema, secondary
- Mesenteric vein thrombosis
- Myocardial infarction, acute
- Paralysis
- Paraplegia, spastic
- Pneumothorax
- Sinus bradycardia
- Sinus tachycardia
- Spinal cord infarction
- Stroke /Young adult
- Associated Disease & Complications
Disease Mechanism & Classification[previous][top][next]
- Pathophysiology
- Pathophysiology/Arterial/gas embolus/obstruction
- Pathophysiology/Free air in chest/status
- Process
- PROCESS/Electromagnetic/physics trauma (category)
- PROCESS/Embolism disorder (ex).
- Pathophysiology
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- Synonym
- Synonym/Aerobullosis
- Synonym/Bends/'Chokes' decompression illness
- Synonym/Caisson disease
- Synonym/Chokes/'Bends'
- Synonym/Diver's disease
- Synonym
Treatment[previous][top][next]
- Drug Therapy - Indication
- RX/Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
- RX/Oxygen
- Drug Therapy - Indication
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