CONSTITUTIONAL FACTORS IN DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS

Abstract

To enable selection of bends-resistant men for diving duty, the feasibility of employing constitutional factors as selection criteria was investigated. Feasibility was determined by ascertaining if there was a relationship between constitutional factors (age, height, weight, and body build) and the incidence of decompression sickness. A second problem was to determine if the depth of a dive and body type interact to influence the probability of contracting bends. None of the obtained mean differences between the divers incurring bends and those who did not were of sufficient magnitude to distinguish between the groups. Therefore, no selection criteria could be established.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 26, 1963
Accession Number
AD0405783

Entities

People

  • D. A. Wise

Organizations

  • United States Navy Experimental Diving Unit

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Adipose Tissue
  • Biomedical Research
  • Blood
  • Cardiovascular System
  • Coefficients
  • Data Science
  • Decompression
  • Decompression Sickness
  • Experimental Design
  • Information Science
  • Measurement
  • Medical Personnel
  • Probability
  • Specific Gravity
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Statistical Tests
  • Tissues

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  • Underwater engineering and Marine Technology.