An echo from the past: Building a Doppler repository for big data in diving research

Undersea Hyperb Med. 2021 First-Quarter;48(1):57-58.ABSTRACTDecompression sickness (DCS) remains a major operational concern for diving operations, submarine escape and high-altitude jumps. Aside from DCS symptoms, venous gas emboli (VGE) detected with ultrasound post-dive are often used as a marker of decompression stress in humans, with a specificity of 100% even though the sensitivity is poor [1]. Being non-invasive, portable and non-ionizing, ultrasound is particularly suited to regular and repeated monitoring. It could help elucidate inter- and intra-subject variability in VGE and DCS susceptibility, but analyzing these recordings remains a cumbersome task [2].PMID:33648034
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