The leading textbook of diving medicine, by international experts, has been completely revised and updated. It provides a comprehensive account relating the basic medical sciences to clinical conditions associated with diving. In-depth coverage of the physiological basis for safe diving, the pathophysiological basis for diving illnesses and the management of diving accidents is included. Features new chapters on fitness to dive, long term health effects of diving, and management of diving accidents.

Product Description: This book reports the Discussion Meeting of the Royal Society at which academic, naval and industrial research workers brought together the many aspects of raised environmental pressure and reviewed recent developments. It will be of value and interest to researchers in most basic and applied biological and medical sciences, as well as to the amateur diver...read more