2009
DOI: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2007.05.011
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Pneumomediastinum After Shallow Water Diving

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“…Shallow diving has been reported once, to cause pneumomediastinum. 7 Apart from barotrauma, coughing and breath holding during the drowning process that possibly occurred in our patient, can also lead to pneumomediastinum due to elevation of intraalveolar pressures and subsequent alveolar rupture.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 62%
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“…Shallow diving has been reported once, to cause pneumomediastinum. 7 Apart from barotrauma, coughing and breath holding during the drowning process that possibly occurred in our patient, can also lead to pneumomediastinum due to elevation of intraalveolar pressures and subsequent alveolar rupture.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 62%
“…7 Pneumomediastinum had been reported initially in 1819 and has been described in the setting of labor and child birth, reactive airway diseases, surgeries to the neck and tonsils, blunt chest trauma and illicit drug inhalation. 8,9 CT did not reveal trauma to the neck due to nasal intubation.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Nevertheless, if there is a maneuver that increases the intrapulmonary pressure like coughing, PBT may occur even in breath-hold diving. 6 In our case there was not such a maneuver, but there was a very risky action that should be avoided by all breath-hold divers. The inhaled volume of the air in the lungs will reach almost double at the surface if the diver breathes compressed air at nine meters.…”
Section: Figurementioning
confidence: 58%
“…Some PBT cases may recover spontaneously. 6 In this case, neurological symptoms subsided without recompression therapy. When there is a suspicion of PBT, a recompression facility should be saught since the clinical conditions may deteriorate.…”
Section: Figurementioning
confidence: 66%