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Scuba diving, swimming and pulmonary oedema
Author(s) -
Dwyer N.,
Smart D.,
Reid D. W.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
internal medicine journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-5994
pISSN - 1444-0903
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-5994.2007.01347.x
Subject(s) - medicine , hospital medicine , citation , cardiology , emergency medicine , library science , computer science
Diving-related ‘immersion’ pulmonary oedema is very\uduncommon and probably underreported.1,2 Immersion\udin thermoneutral water augments cardiac preload and\udincreases pulmonary arterial pressure as blood is redistributed\udfrom the periphery to the thoracic cavity. Intrathoracic\udblood volume may increase by half a litre,\udresulting in a 30% rise in cardiac output and increases\udin right atrial pressures of up to 16 mmHg