BLOGCuriosities and facts about Japan
The annual meeting of International DAN (DAN America, DAN Europe, DAN Japan, DAN Southern Africa, DAN S. E. Asia Pacific) in 2012 was held in...
15 January 2013
Emergency Paediatric Care in Thailand: “a truly brilliant service.”
Travelling with kids, as one knows, requires a lot of care and attention. If the trip in question is in a faraway country, well known...
15 January 2013
With the Flying Bubbles Project, DAN Research takes off!
After a long and accurate phase of tests, an innovative research project on Flying after Diving and no-fly time has just taken off. The project...
15 January 2013
ENT problems suffered by scuba divers during participation in diving activities
Background: What types of Acute ENT problems while diving make a diver visit a healthcare facility? We studied incidence of such problems in the DAN member...
By Amir Gerges
15 January 2013
Prevalence and Genetic Predisposition to Acute Respiratory Symptoms in breath-hold divers
Introduction: After repetitive deep dives, breath-hold divers are often affected by a syndrome characterized by symptoms such as cough, chest constriction, hemoptysis and, rarely, an...
15 January 2013
Preliminary analysis of DAN Europe DSL DB and gradient factor evaluations
Introduction: The current large number of dives per year requires in-depth epidemiological analysis. The DAN Europe DSL database (DB) was analysed aiming at comparing its...
By Amir Gerges
15 January 2013
Coming up short
As DAN Members you know that DAN continuously gathers data on dive injuries. A small, but growing, number of cases reported to DAN involves what...
15 January 2013
Are Pre-existing Medical Conditions Covered or Not?
Public in general talks about health care like it’s a debatable issue. We weigh the pros and cons, we take sides, we argue. The truth...
15 January 2013
Robojelly: The Underwater Robot Jellyfish that Produces its own Energy from Hydrogen
Robojelly is the name of the newly invented underwater robot jellyfish prototype, capable of refuelling itself using hydrogen present in ocean waters, producing the necessary energy...
By Marta Albè
15 January 2013
To Dive or Not To Dive with Bleomycin
(Editor’s note: the following is a shortened version of the article published in Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine – Vol. 82, No 8, August 2011)IntroductionBleomycin...
15 October 2012
Meditation and Diving
Most divers have at some point been nervous before or during a dive. That is completely natural. We plunge into a world that we were...
15 October 2012
Can Whales Get the Bends?
Conventional wisdom holds that diving mammals do not suffer from decompression sickness (DCS). This is based on two key points: first, evolution has allowed them...
15 October 2012
