Effect of Severity, Time to Recompression with Oxygen, and Re-Treatment on Outcome in Forty-Nine Cases of Spinal Cord Decompression Sickness

Abstract

For systematic study of the effects of clinical severity, time to recompression with oxygen, and re-treatment on outcome from spinal cord DCS, case records from the recompression chamber at the U.S. Naval Station Subic Bay were reviewed. Forty-nine cases of spinal cord DCS were classified using a numerical severity index and time to recompression with oxygen. Cases were divided by initial severity into mild, moderate, and severe groups and by time to recompression with oxygen into less than 12-h, 12-14-h, and greater than 24-h groups. Re-treatment effect was analyzed by severity after the first treatment and by the depth of the re-treatment table used. Severity after all treatment is strongly correlated with initial severity (tau = 0.88) and moderately correlated with time to recompression with oxygen (tau = 0.58). Response to treatment is significantly different among initial severity groups (P < 0.001).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1993
Accession Number
ADA271813

Entities

People

  • R. Ball

Organizations

  • Naval Medical Research Center

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Analysis Of Variance
  • Central Nervous System
  • Correlation Analysis
  • Data Science
  • Decompression Sickness
  • Divers
  • Diving
  • Hyperbaric Medicine
  • Information Science
  • Naval Shore Facilities
  • Nervous System
  • Paralysis
  • Predictive Modeling
  • Regression Analysis
  • Spinal Cord
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Therapy

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

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  • Brain and Cognitive Science; Experimental Psychology; Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Trauma or Military Medicine
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