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By represurising the diver to the presure that he was at then slowly normalising it. this is done in a decompresion chamber. If a decompression chamber is not used, the person will die immediatly. Do not pass go, do not collect 200$ The above is a nice basic answer. Decompression sickness results from bubbles occurring in the body after surfacing from a dive. The treatment is to recompress the diver in a recompression chamber (not a decompression chamber) to a certain pressure or depth. Different facilities use different treatment methods and therefore different depths as well as different treatment times. The pressure on the diver makes any bubbles in the body smaller and therefore easier to eliminate as well as relieving any pain the diver is experiencing from the bubbles. The diver is also given oxygen to breath since this will cause the excess inert gas in the diver (i.e. nitrogen if air was used to breath during the dive) to be eliminated faster (since nitrogen is no longer being breathed and therefore it has a pure driving force for elimination).
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∙ 12y agoUnder diving pressure, the body fluids become saturated with nitrogen. While pressure is maintained, the nitrogen stays harmlessly in suspension in the body fluids. As pressure is released, such as through ascent from the depth, the nitrogen is released from inside the body. During a proper ascent, nitrogen is released slowly and can be off-loaded from the body through the lungs. Too fast and the nitrogen is released inside the body as bubbles. It is the same effect you see when you suddenly release the pressure from a can of soda and the gas comes out of suspension. The nitrogen bubbles can migrate to all parts of the body causing severe joint pain or death.
When the body is re-pressurized, the nitrogen goes back into suspension--the bubbles disappear and further damage from them is stopped. The body can then be depressurized at a safe rate to prevent the bubbles from reoccuring. This does not necessarily reverse damage that was caused.
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∙ 6y agoA diver with the bends must be taken to a chamber and slowly brought up to allow the nitrogen bubbles to be flushed out (by breathing). Most bends victims are taken to a replicated depth of 40 feet and they might stay on air for 20 minutes. Then brought to a depth of 30 feet and breathe for 25 minutes. And then to 20 feet for 15 minutes and ten feet for 18 minutes. This allows the nitrogen in the diver to be breathed out and discharge the bubbles from the dive they got the bends from.
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What is a diver's ailment?
The bends
What is diver's ailment called?
The bends
What do they call it when a scuba diver comes to surface to quick?
they get the bends
What energy is it when the diver jumps and the board bends down?
The diver at the top of a diving board has potential energy
What happens when a diver surfaces too quickly?
When a diver surfaces too quickly he gets 'the bends'.As the diver goes down, the pressure causes nitrogen to dissolve in the blood. That's harmless.On the way up the diver must allow time for the nitrogen to come out of the blood slowly. If the diver comes up faster than the recommended timing, the nitrogen gas will form bubbles and block small blood vessels, causing 'the bends' a painful and life threatening condition that is cured by putting the patient in a pressure chamber and bringing the pressure down very, very slowly.
Why is it important for a deep sea diver to resurface at a gradual rate?
because bubbles of nitrogen that are abosrbed into the blood at high pressures but are normally insoluble start being released from the blood as the diver rises. If this happens to quickly bubbles in the blood form and the diver gets the bends
What is happening to a scuba diver after a long scuba diving session and he starts to feel pain in his elbow on the airplane trip home?
They are potentially suffering the bends
How do divers get the bends?
It has to do with the change in pressure on the body. The Bends happen when the body experiences a quick decrease in pressure. We mostly associate The Bends with a diver ascending too quickly from a deep depth back to the surface. But "decompression sickness", as it is more formally called, can happen from changes in altitude, too, or even after exiting mines and going back to the surface.
What causes the bends in drivers?
What is referred to as 'the bends' is a condition that is caused by rapid decompression, something that can happen if a diver ascends too quickly. The problem that develops is that the nitrogen gas in their blood begins to boil, much like shaking and then opening a soda bottle and letting it fizz over, except in the bends it does not spill out. The person experiencing the bends feels tremendous pain as their blood fizzes the nitrogen inside their blood vessels.
What is the most pressure a diver can experience before getting the bends or decompression sickness?
The deepest depth that can be dived to (on air) and saturate and then surface without getting decompression sickness in general is about 20 feet (6 meters). This is known as the Minimum Bends Depth. Any depth greater than this depth can result in decompression sickness depending on the time underwater.
What is a Olympic diver?
A diver that competes in the Olympics or a diver that has competed in past Olympics.
Can scuba diving affect driving after words and show up as if you had a drink on a breathalizer?
If you were to dive and then drive over VERY HIGH (3000') mountains the diver could experience the equivelent of the bends. This would be the same danger as flying after diving. breathalizer? no.
