Difference between Caisson Disease and Decompression Sickness

CAISSON DISEASE vs DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS: NOUN

The painful condition in which bubbles of nitrogen form in body tissues after a person makes too-rapid a transition from high atmospheric pressure to lower atmospheric pressure.
A disease developed in coming from an atmosphere of high tension, as in caissons, to air of ordinary tension. It is marked by paralysis and other nervous symptoms.
Decompression sickness.
Pain resulting from rapid change in pressure

A sometimes fatal condition resulting from the formation of nitrogen bubbles in the blood and tissues, because of too rapid decompression, seen especially in deep-sea divers ascending rapidly from a dive. It is characterized by severe pains in the joints and chest, skin irritation, cramps, nausea, and paralysis.
A disorder, seen especially in deep-sea divers, caused by the formation of nitrogen bubbles in the blood and tissues following a sudden drop in the surrounding pressure, as when ascending rapidly from a dive, and characterized by severe pains in the joints and chest, skin irritation, cramps, and paralysis.
Pain resulting from rapid change in pressure

A disease frequently induced by remaining for some time in an atmosphere of high pressure, as in caissons, diving bells, etc. It is characterized by neuralgic pains and paralytic symptoms. It is caused by the release of bubbles of gas, usually nitrogen, from bodily fluids into the blood and tissues, when a person, having been in an environment with high air pressure, moves to a lower pressure environment too rapidly for the excess dissolved gases to be released through normal breathing. It may be fatal, but can be reversed or alleviated by returning the affected person to a high air pressure, and then gradually decreasing the pressure to allow the gases to be released from the body fluids. It is a danger well known to divers. It is also called the bends and decompression sickness. It can be prevented in divers by a slow return to normal pressure, or by using a breathing mixture of oxygen combined with a gas having low solubility in water, such as helium.

Chyloderma, Blood blister, Stethometer, Respiratory organ, Oxygen debt, Proctocele, Somesthesis, Cyanopathy, Rachialgia, Bloodstroke, Trench mouth, Air embolism, Aeroembolism, Bends, Decompression sickness

Dehydration, Anoxia, Hypoxemia, Barotrauma, Altitude sickness, Diver, Embolism, Hypoxia, Hypothermia, Decompression, Nitrogen narcosis, Caisson disease, Aeroembolism, Air embolism, Bends

Chyloderma, Blood blister, Stethometer, Respiratory organ, Oxygen debt, Proctocele, Somesthesis, Cyanopathy, Rachialgia, Bloodstroke, Trench mouth, Air embolism, Aeroembolism, Bends, Decompression sickness

Oedema, Heat exhaustion, Thrombosis, Dehydration, Hypoxemia, Altitude sickness, Diver, Embolism, Hypothermia, Decompression, Nitrogen narcosis, Caisson disease, Air embolism, Aeroembolism, Bends

Diving suit failure in cold water forces the diver to choose between hypothermia and decompression sickness.
This can lead to bubble formation and growth, with decompression sickness as a consequence.
Depending on which organs are involved, these bubbles produce the symptoms of decompression sickness.
Occasionally however, decompression sickness may becomeapparent many hours or even days after a dive.
Provides initial clinical care for decompression sickness, and carbon monoxide poisoning.
Honiara, to treat decompression sickness, a hazard of scuba diving.
Decompression sickness or the bends can develop during scuba diving.
WARNINGA rapid ascent increases the risk of decompression sickness.
Heat exhaustion Acute mountain sickness Decompression sickness Hypothermia Frostbite.
It is sometimes called air sickness, altitude sickness, or decompression sickness.