Cerebro-spinal decompression sickness: report of two cases

Cases of Cerebro-Spinal Fever

Saturation treatment in shore-based chambers for divers with deteriorating cerebro-spinal decompression sickness.

Nearly 4% of all primary recompression treatments in Scotland employ saturation tables (helium/oxygen-oxygen/air or oxygen/air alone). These cases usually involve divers presenting at the surface who then develop deteriorating spinal cord injury with varying degrees of cerebral involvement. Treatment is delivered either through immediate saturation therapy or through conversion of failing or fa...

Notes of Two Cases of Cerebro-Spinal Fever, Rungpore Jail

4 P.M.?Temp. 105?, pulse 130, resp. 40, other symptoms same as in the morning. Pulse weaker; resp. jeiky and hurried; pain increased in the head ; first sound of the heart nearly inaudible ; had one feculent bilious stool, no vomiting. Continue medicine every 2 hours, mustard plaster to nape. 1 Gth May 1891, 7 a.m., temp. lOo^0. Very weak and prostrated, pulse very frequent and weak, could not ...

Treatment of 137 Cases of Decompression Sickness.

During the course of the last decade the incidence of decompression sickness within the Royal Navy has markedly increased. Whereas in the past such cases were largely the result of accident or negligence and fortunately rare, the testing of new techniques and tables has produced sufficient material to make some analysis of the various methods of treatment worth while. This paper consists of sum...

Report on Cerebro-Spinal Fever