• Commercial Divers' Subjective Evaluation of SaturationPeer reviewedOpen access 

      30 janvier 2019, Imbert, Jean Pierre; BALESTRA, Costantino; Kiboub, Fatima Zohra; Loennechen, Øyvind; Eftedal, Ingrid, HE Bruxelles Brabant
      Article scientifique
      Commercial saturation diving involves divers living and working in an enclosed atmosphere with elevated partial pressure of oxygen (ppO2) for weeks. The divers must acclimatize to these conditions during compression, and for up to 28 days until decompression is completed. During decompression, the ppO2 and ambient pressure are gradually decreased; then the divers must acclimatize again to breathing ...
    • Static Metabolic Bubbles as Precursors of Vascular Gas Emboli During Divers' Decompression: A Hypothesis Explaining Bubbling VariabilityPeer reviewedOpen access 

      30 juillet 2019, Imbert, Jean Pierre; Egi, Salih Murat; GERMONPRÉ, Peter; BALESTRA, Costantino, HE Bruxelles Brabant
      Article scientifique
      Introduction: The risk for decompression sickness (DCS) after hyperbaric exposures (such as SCUBA diving) has been linked to the presence and quantity of vascular gas emboli (VGE) after surfacing from the dive. These VGE can be semi-quantified by ultrasound Doppler and quantified via precordial echocardiography. However, for an identical dive, VGE monitoring of divers shows variations related to ...