PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Lucy Ashken
AU  - Andrew Ross-Parker
AU  - Tamer Shalaby
TI  - Lesson of the month 1: A review of a diving emergency
AID  - 10.7861/clinmedicine.15-1-99
DP  - 2015 Feb 01
TA  - Clinical Medicine
PG  - 99--100
VI  - 15
IP  - 1
4099  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/15/1/99.short
4100  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/15/1/99.full
SO  - Clin Med2015 Feb 01; 15
AB  - Physicians should consider barotrauma and decompression illness (DCI) in any patient presenting after a recent scuba dive, even apparently shallow dives. If and when DCI is suspected, clinicians should act without delay to transfer the patient to a recompression facility, even if diagnostic certainty has not been attained. We present a case of hyperbaric injury in an asthmatic woman who had an atypical presentation in view of the depth of dive.