Condition
Decompression Sickness
An illness from gas bubbles forming in the body after a rapid drop in pressure, most often in scuba divers.
Also called: the bends, diving injury, arterial gas embolism
Who Can Help with Decompression Sickness?
- Hyperbaric Medicine Doctors
A physician who treats slow-healing wounds, carbon monoxide poisoning and other conditions with oxygen therapy in a pressurized chamber.
Related
- Bone Infections
- Burns
- Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
- Chronic Wounds
- Crush Injuries
- Diabetic Foot Ulcers
- Failing Skin Grafts and Flaps
- Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
- Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infection
- Negative Pressure Wound Therapy
- Pressure Ulcers
- Radiation Tissue Damage
- Sudden Hearing Loss
- Venous Leg Ulcers
- Wound Care
- Wound Debridement
General information, not medical advice. Ask a provider about decompression sickness and what is right for you.