Sentences with phrase «by decompression sickness»

After having collected marine samples from that depth, they can't exit water right away without being affected by decompression sickness.

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This technique not only staved off decompression sickness, by keeping nitrogen out of the bloodstream, but also reduced the amount of oxygen delivered from her lungs to her bloodstream — preserving the oxygen within the sea lion's upper airways.

In addition, the therapy shrinks gas bubbles, soothing decompression sickness, and treats carbon monoxide poisoning by removing CO from the bloodstream.

Biologists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution found bone damage consistent with decompression sickness, caused by nitrogen bubbles in the blood as an animal surfaces too quickly.

It has FDA approval only for certain medical uses, such as treating decompression sickness suffered by scuba divers.

Normally, if you follow safe diving limits by using dive tables and / or computers, you are at very very low risk of decompression sickness.