Publisher's Synopsis
Provides complete information on diving medicine and the hyperbaric environment. Covers basic diving physiology; diving-related problems in people with pre-existing medical conditions; and pulmonary, cardiovascular, and neurological disorders in diving. The new edition of this definitive text features new material on commercial and military diving, barotrauma, mixed gases, treatment of decompression sickness, oxygen toxicity, women and diving, and the cardiovascular aspects of diving.
