Pulmonary Barotrauma After Diving Without Breathing Equipment

A case of a 19-year-old male with mediastinal and subcutaneous emphysema consistent with pulmonary barotrauma after diving is reported. He presented with facial swelling, voice change, chest pain, and shortness of breath after multiple dives between 8 and 12 feet deep without underwater breathing eq...

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Autores principales: Rezentes, Corinne, Scott, Chavez
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10657608/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38021658
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.47382
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description A case of a 19-year-old male with mediastinal and subcutaneous emphysema consistent with pulmonary barotrauma after diving is reported. He presented with facial swelling, voice change, chest pain, and shortness of breath after multiple dives between 8 and 12 feet deep without underwater breathing equipment in a river. Relevant radiology, including radiographs and computed tomography (CT imaging), and a discussion of pulmonary barotrauma are presented.
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spelling pubmed-106576082023-10-20 Pulmonary Barotrauma After Diving Without Breathing Equipment Rezentes, Corinne Scott, Chavez Cureus Emergency Medicine A case of a 19-year-old male with mediastinal and subcutaneous emphysema consistent with pulmonary barotrauma after diving is reported. He presented with facial swelling, voice change, chest pain, and shortness of breath after multiple dives between 8 and 12 feet deep without underwater breathing equipment in a river. Relevant radiology, including radiographs and computed tomography (CT imaging), and a discussion of pulmonary barotrauma are presented. Cureus 2023-10-20 /pmc/articles/PMC10657608/ /pubmed/38021658 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.47382 Text en Copyright © 2023, Rezentes et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title Pulmonary Barotrauma After Diving Without Breathing Equipment
title_full Pulmonary Barotrauma After Diving Without Breathing Equipment
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title_full_unstemmed Pulmonary Barotrauma After Diving Without Breathing Equipment
title_short Pulmonary Barotrauma After Diving Without Breathing Equipment
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topic Emergency Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10657608/
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