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Originally Posted by cummings66
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Originally Posted by emcbride81
As for resaturation without pressure, I dont think it can happen. The body has no use for nitrogen, so there would be no uptake into the cells. If all goes well it is exhaled.
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What about Henry's Law, 14.7 psi all the time ya know. Wouldn't that be enough over time? Might be why some hits that go untreated take 6 months or longer to go away. |
The blood does have the ability to absorb gasses via the aveolar membrane, so the gasses will absorb directly in the blood. Non-red blood cells don't have this ability-well, they might, but it's drastially less. Which is a big reason why bubbles are so damaging. And it does take a lot of bubble to cause problems. As for organs themselves, the solid organs take more of a hit.
Think about this: Put a deflated balloon in a jar of marbles and slowly inflate the balloon. Eventually, the ballon is going to put more force on the marbles and if enough pressure is put in the balloon, the jar will burst. The jar is a functioning area of an organ, the marbles are cells and the balloon is the expanding bubble. You survive the DCS episode, but have tissue/organ injury or damage. How life altering it is depends on the size and location of the bubbles.