TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2023//
TI  - The risk of decompression illness in breath-hold divers: a systematic review
JO  - Diving and hyperbaric medicine
A1  - Blogg, S. Lesley
A1  - Tillmans, Frauke
A1  - Lindholm, Peter
SP  - 31
EP  - 41
VL  - 53
IS  - 1
N2  - INTRODUCTION: Breath-hold (BH) diving has known risks, for example drowning, pulmonary oedema of immersion and barotrauma. There is also the risk of decompression illness (DCI) from decompression sickness (DCS) and/or arterial gas embolism (AGE). The first report on DCS in repetitive freediving was published in 1958 and from then there have been multiple case reports and a few studies but no prior systematic review or meta-analysis. <br><br>METHODS: We undertook a systematic literature review to identify articles available from PubMed and Google Scholar concerning breath-hold diving and DCI up to August 2021. <br><br>RESULTS: The present study identified 17 articles (14 case reports, three experimental studies) covering 44 incidences of DCI following BH diving. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: This review found that the literature supports both DCS and AGE as potential mechanisms for DCI in BH divers; both should be considered a risk for this cohort of divers, just as for those breathing compressed gas while underwater.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1833-3516
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.28920/dhm53.1.31-41
ID  - ref1
ER  -