[Diving Jayhawk]

Hey Navy, that sucks about your crap experience with some idiot.

While some protocols do vary the execution of dive operations the treatment of dive accidents in essentially uniform (I can send out out a half-dozen company supervisor manuals.) To try and offer clarification on the treatment tables for DCS and AGE's here is the most current info.

If a diver has ANY neurological symptoms after diving (esp within 2 hours) it will be treated as an AGE or DCS Type II. Unilateral pain only away from the trunk or skin bends are treated as Type I DCS.

Any of these require immediate recompression to 60 FSW with 100% O2 for no less than 20 minutes. If Type I DCS and symptoms resolve in 10 minutes or less than treat on USN treatment table 5. If not then continue on TT6. If Type II DCS remain at 60 FSW for 20 minutes and look for stable or improving symptoms. If so, then continue on TT6 or TT6 w/ extentions. If not use Table 6a. etc, etc, protocols go on.

Navy is absolutely right about most clinical chambers (either monoplace or multiplace) will only go to 3ata and is probably not suitible for dive injuries. For whoever mentioned that diving docs can/do write custom tables for treatment- I have to respectfully disagree. Dive docs are required to extend treatment to table 4 or 7, but in 99% of cases DMTs, LSTs, and LSS's can beginning running the intial treatments,