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...bottom of a 14-ft. training tank in Seattle, and despite his training, he had evidently held his breath all the way up. Within seconds, he was half unconscious, and his left side was paralyzed. The instructor and his diving comrades rushed the victim to General Practitioner Charles A. Kruse, who had two important qualifications for handling the case: his of fice was near by, and he is an enthusiastic skindiver himself...
Expanding Air. Dr. Kruse could see at once what the trouble was. The stricken diver was suffering from air embolism,* in which compressed air in the lungs expands rapidly, forces its way into pulmonary veins leading to the heart, and travels through the arteries to the brain, where it cuts off part of the circulation and causes unconsciousness and paralysis. Dr. Kruse told the diving crew to carry the patient to an examining room. Inexperienced at the job, they let the unconscious man's head sag forward until his chin touched his chest. At the same time, they were...
Standard treatment for air embolism is to put the victim into a recompression chamber, but Dr. Kruse did not know where the nearest chamber was. Fortunately, the twitch in the head-dropped position gave him an idea. By chance, the examining table had a tilting mechanism. The doctor propped up the diver's head until his chin rested on his chest-the same position that had produced the hopeful twitch. Then he spun the control wheel until the head end of the table had dropped about 15 degrees. As fast as he could, he spun the wheel again until...
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