Chetan Kodange

King Hamad University Hospital | KHUH · Hyperbaric Medicine

Introduction Metabolic syndrome refers to a clustering of metabolic risk factors including central obesity, glucose intolerance, low high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, high triglycerides, and hypertension. In the naval setting, some occupational characteristics of submariners such as long work hours, lack of physical activity, disturbed ci...

Introduction: Diving is an operational commitment of navy. Diving operations are conducted with / without the presence of a Marine Medical Specialist. Incidence of Decompression amongst naval divers is low compared to recreational SCUBA diving. Decompression Sickness (DCS) and Pulmonary Overinflation Syndrome (POIS), subsets of diving-related injur...

Saturation Diving is a highly technical and advanced form of diving utilized to perform dives at depths greater than 55 metres. It employs physiological principles and decompression techniques which enables the diver to have an almost unlimited stay at the depth. This requires the diver to be saturated at the requisite pressure in a diving chamber...

Introduction: Lack of physical activity is one of the major factor which affects crew health while onboard submarines at sea. Lack of physical activity along with increase in body weight and body fat content can lead to increase predisposition to lifestyle disorders in submarine crew. Materials and Methods: Omron Bioimpedance monitor to measure wei...

Physical activity onboard the diesel-electric submarines is as it is restricted due to lack of space onboard. In the absence of physical activity, one would expect the weight of the submarine crew to increase during the period of deployment at sea. Submarine crew were seen to be consuming 3168±282 kCal/day while doing hard physical work but DIPAS,...

Decompression illness is caused by intravascular or extravascular bubbles that are formed as a result of reduction in environmental pressure (decompression). The term covers both arterial gas embolism, in which alveolar gas or venous gas emboli (via cardiac shunts or via pulmonary vessels) are introduced into the arterial circulation, and decompres...

Introduction: Diving is a n operational commitment of navy. Diving operations are conducted with I without the presence of a MM spl. Study of MM done along with phases of attachments at different diving operational units as practical orientation. Classes of Divers: (a) Ship Diver (SD). Trained to dive up to 35 MSW (b) Clearance Diver (CD): They are...

Introduction: Oxygen toxicity is a major limiting factor in underwater combat operations and Clearance diving operations. It is imperative to screen in the induction phase of military diving, those individuals who have lower threshold of oxygen toxicity to avoid it during combat diving operations. In addition, susceptibility to oxygen toxicity is a...

Underwater environment predisposes a diver to high blood pressure. Although neurologic manifestation after a diving episode are considered to be decompressive illness unless otherwise proved, all medical emergencies are to be considered. Incidence of ICH amongst divers while working underwater is rare and yet to be reviewed in diving literature. We...

Background Studies have justified that social and cultural factors influence young people not to use condoms. Sexually active people associate condoms with lack of trust, while others believe carrying them could imply sexual inexperience. The aim of this study was to provide an intervention model based on this social perception and assess the impac...