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MEDICAL SERVICES
6 Perspectives
9 MEDICAL SERVICES
10 Stacking the Deck: Applying Lessons Learned to Dive Safety Basics 16 Lionfish Stings 18 Back to Basics: Understanding Decompression Illness 22 Women’s Health and Diving 26 Marine Envenomations: Jellyfish and Hydroid Stings 28 Children and Diving: What Are the Real Concerns? 32 Uncertainty After Diving: Case Reports and Recommendations
35 MEMBERSHIP AND INSURANCE
36 A Culture of Dive Safety 39 Pneumonia in Germany 40 More Than Just Bubbles: Are We Too Concerned About DCS? 42 Timeline of an Emergency Call 44 Touch and Go in Tonga 46 Professional Liability: Not Just for Pros 50 Divers Losing Access to Emergency Care 54 DCS in Cozumel 56 Reduce Your Liability Risk
57 SAFETY SERVICES
58 Survive Your Dive: A U.S. Coast Guard Perspective 60 Choosing Safety 62 Preventing Breathing-Gas Contamination 64 Invisible Crystals 66 Experience and Risk 68 You’ll Be OK 70 Freediving Safety 74 What Drowning Really Looks Like 76 Dive Boat Fire Safety 78 The Social Psychology of Safe Diving 80 When Things Go Wrong: Emergency Action Plans
81 RESEARCH
82 Matters of the Heart: Aging, Wellness and Fitness to Dive 87 Delay to Recompression 90 Timing Exercise and Diving 92 PFO and Decompression Illness in Recreational Divers 96 Checklists: Keys to Safer Diving? 98 Immersion Pulmonary Edema
