One of the premier undersea medicine, #diving sciences book in the field right now is, Diving Science...Revisited by Dr. Michael Strauss. This text is like no other diving text.
Amplified with figures and tables, this book includes four unique and innovative parts amplified by nine globally respected contributors.
👉 Medical problems of diving (MPD) are discussed from stimulus-response perspectives in the phase of a dive in which they are likely to occur.
🐟 MPD are explained by how they affect the human diver whether physical, physiological, psychological, and/or lack of awareness.
🤿 A variety of diving types and situations from breath-hold to rebreather, from children to women to older aged adults, from cold water to cave, and from deep altitude to diving with handicaps are described in individual chapters with their merits, hazards, and necessary precautions for safe diving.
💡 Part IV contains a concise summary of the MPD from seven different perspectives ranging from the significance of the problem to when to return to diving.
📚 Part V consists of a rhetorical question for each of the first four parts with bullet points that recap the subjects covered in each chapter.
This book describes the positive as well as undesirable ways divers' interact with the aquatic environment.
It is especially recommended for the following:
- Diving instructors and supervisors
- Those involved with clinical applications of hyperbaric oxygen therapy
- Those engaged in diving-associated marine biology and underwater missions
- All divers, whether novice or advanced, who want to advance their knowledge about the science and medical challenges of diving.
Table of Contents
PART I: Introduction
1 Phases and Stresses of the Dive
2 Diving Accidents, Challenges, and Precautions
3 Challenges to the Diver Before Entering the Water
PART II: Stresses in Diving
4 Physical Stresses
5 Physiological Stresses
6 Psychological Stresses
7 The No-Panic Syndromes
8 Near-Drowning and Drowning
Part III: Special Diving Types, Situations, and Environments
9 Breath-Hold Diving
10 Rebreather Diving
11 Deep Diving: Saturation and Trimix Open-Circuit Diving
12 Scuba Diving in Older Age
13 Women and Diving
14 Younger Age Diver
15 Diving in Cold Water and Safety Considerations
16 Altitude Diving
17 Cave Diving
18 Diving with Disabilities
Part IV: A Compendium of Medical Problems of Diving
19 Psychological and Physiological Problems of the Surface
20 Other Surface Problems: Exposure and Marine Animal Injuries
21 Problems Associated with Descent
22 Bottom Problems
23 Ascent Problems
24 Emergency Complications from Medical Problems of Diving
25 Finishing Touches
👉 Get your copy here Diving Science Revisited by Dr. Michael Strauss
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