Citation

Eckenhoff RG, Olstad CS. Undersea Biomed. Res. 1991; 18(1): 47-51.

Affiliation

Department of Anesthesia, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1991, Undersea Medical Society)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2021020

Abstract

We exposed 34 subjects to a 48-h, 6.25-msw dive, and administered ethanol (0.5-1.0 ml pure ethanol.kg-1 body weight) orally to 11 of them immediately after direct decompression. Doppler monitoring of both precordial and subclavian sites for 24 h postsurfacing revealed that all subjects from both groups had detectable bubbles, and that there was no difference in timing or magnitude between the 2 groups. These results do not support the recently suggested role for ethanol in the treatment of decompression sickness.

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