Template:Differential Diagnosis Dive Medicine

• Barotrauma of descent
  • Otic Barotrauma: "ear squeeze"
  • Sinus Barotrauma: "sinus squeeze"
  • Mask Squeeze: air in the mask decreases in volume during a dive, creating negative pressure
  • Barodentalgia: trapped dental air causing squeeze
• At depth injuries
  • Oxygen Toxicity: harmful effects of breathing oxygen at higher partial pressures than normal
  • Nitrogen Narcosis: toxic effects of breathing nitrogen-containing gases while at depth
  • Hypothermia: decrease core temperature with prolonged exposure to cold water
  • Carbon Monoxide Toxicity: CO toxicity typically results from a faulty air compressor
  • Caustic Cocktail: Inhalation of absorbent material used to scrub CO2 mixes with water
• Barotrauma of ascent
  • Pulmonary Barotrauma: occurs when diver breathing compressed air ascends too rapidly
  • Decompression Sickness: Dissolved nitrogen comes out of solution, forms bubbles in blood and tissue ("the bends")
  • Arterial Gas Embolism
  • Alternobaric vertigo
  • Facial baroparesis (Bells Palsy)
• Other
  • Immersion Pulmonary Edema: also termed swimming induced pulmonary edema
  • Salt water aspiration
  • Submersion Injury: includes drowning, near drowning