BLOGHits Happen
Remember Harold Kushner's 1980s bestseller, When Bad Things Happen to Good People? This inspiring book explored why ordinary people - ourselves and people around us...
15 July 2009
Stories
Differential Diagnosis
The Diver This is a 51-year-old female who is in good health. In the past year, she had two vertebrae in her neck (cervical vertebrae 5...
15 July 2009
Scuba Diving and Dental Implants
More people are electing to have failing or missing teeth replaced by dental implants. Traditional solutions for missing teeth include these types of implants: bridges,...
15 July 2009
Psychological Trauma and its Treatment
In the field of recreational and technical diving, traumatic situations can happen such as nitrogen narcosis, decompression sickness or assisting people who manifest with various...
15 July 2009
Diabetes and Diving
Diabetes is a disease in which the body is not able to produce or effectively respond to insulin, a hormone that is required to use...
15 July 2009
Fitness and Diving
Fitness and diving; fitness for diving; fitness in diving; fitness to dive. As divers we've heard these expressions in our training classes, in dive publications...
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15 April 2009
Plastic Surgery & Diving
This article only summarizes these procedures. Besides the risks given for each, other potential complications include bleeding, reaction to the anesthetic and infection. Patients should...
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15 April 2009
Keeping It Clean
We can all agree that, before a dive, clean ear canals with normally equalizing middle ears is ideal. But what about the ears that need...
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15 April 2009
Editorial
Dear DAN Europe Members,Continuing in our effort to ever improve our relationship with our Members and to favour a more direct contact with the members...
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15 April 2009
Make scuba fun and safe for children
The European Child Safety Alliance, EuroSafe with the support of the European Commission released a new resource titled “Protecting children and youths in water recreation:...
15 April 2009
Painful Memories
Q: I get a headache about 10-15 minutes into my dive. It lasts throughout my dive but disappears within a few minutes of surfacing. What...
15 April 2009
Sleuthing to find the disease
In diagnosing decompression illness (DCI), we rely heavily on the various elements of the diver's history and the clinical exam. This is especially true when...
15 April 2009
