TY - JOUR T1 - Lesson of the month 1: A review of a diving emergency JF - Clinical Medicine JO - Clin Med SP - 99 LP - 100 DO - 10.7861/clinmedicine.15-1-99 VL - 15 IS - 1 AU - Lucy Ashken AU - Andrew Ross-Parker AU - Tamer Shalaby Y1 - 2015/02/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/15/1/99.abstract N2 - 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. ER -