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Bleomycin and scuba diving: to dive or not to dive?

Bleomycin is to treat patients with testicular cancer and lymphoma. Bleomycin can bind to DNA and chelate iron. The resulting complex can form an intermediate capable of interacting with oxygen to produce reactive oxygen species, particularly superoxide. Administrating high-inspired oxygen concentrations (e.g. during anaesthesia or acute illness) has been reported to exacerbate pulmonary injury...

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shortcoming because it would have allowed to compare conditions under which potential conflicts become real conflicts (e.g. the conflict over sex ratio) and those where they don't (e.g. conflict over queen rearing) — a crucial criterion for the superorganism. The final chapters are devoted to the Ponerine ants — a subfamily characterized by its staggering diversity and by its primitive social o...

NIHSS applied to cerebral neurological dive injuries as a tool for dive injury severity stratification.

BACKGROUND Evaluation via National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) upon presentation in hospital triage following ischemic stroke is predictive of recovery or progression to neurological deficits. Cerebral injuries sustained while diving have symptoms similar to stroke. Applying the NIHSS to dive injuries may successfully summarize neurological dive injuries, providing a standardized ...

Validation of Dive Computers

This paper reviews a workshop on the validation of dive computers that was convened by the Baromedical and Environmental Physiology Group of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology on 24 August 2011 in Gdansk, Poland as part of the European Underwater and Baromedical Society annual scientific meeting. The use of dive computers by working (commercial inshore) divers in Norway to deter...