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The diving medical detectives:
when diving medicine books
are completely wrong
Abstract:
We compiled lists/descriptions of errors found in the standard diving medicine
literature.
Methods:
We scanned our diving medicine archives and looked there for already
existing error-reports; typos etc. were ignored.
Results:
Severe errors are appearing more frequently in monographs. Omnibus
Volumes, written by teams of experts, are obviously more resilient to errors.
Discussion / Recommendations:
Single authors / editors should consult with expert teams prior to
publication.
If you want to contribute s.th. to our list, we would be very happy if you send
an e-mail to our head of lab: director@smc-de.com
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The diving medical detectives:
when diving medicine books
are completely wrong
Background, continued:
Methods: As we scanned our diving medicine archives, we took the contents
of chapter II (General Diving Medicine) into account and looked as well there
for already existing error-reports. The numbers in brackets, [xyz] refer to the
identical entries @ https://www.divetable.info/books/index_e.htm,
Typos etc. were ignored and thus do not appear in the list, as well, for eg.
topics, settled for long, like Haldane‘s „oxygen excretion from the lung“ and
similar or other topics, open to conjecture, like „deep stops“ or algorithms.
Results: in Part I we covered 6 books out of 16, for the details, pls. cf. slides
# 4 7; severe errors are appearing more frequently in monographs.
Omnibus Volumes, written by teams of experts, like [110], [157], [158] or [205]
are obviously more resilient to errors.
Since it is fun to play detective, we will cover in Part II (tbd.) our Bühlmann
collection, i.e.: [4], [4a], [5], [5a], [65], [234] and some of Alberts JAP papers.
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[63]
p. 487, Table 10.2.1: an excursion does not
start from 25 but instead from 21 feet,
the transit times are for 20 feet or shallower.
This is, as such, probably, not a serious error,
just a misinterpretation of the USN excursion limits table (Table 16-1)
on p. 818 / 16-8 of Rev. 7 [15e] and the
according single-depth oxygen exposure limits (Table 16-2, p. 820 / 16-10)
with the very clear instruction:
„No excursions are allowed when using these limits“,
pls. cf. the next slide.
But it came up when we were checking [62] and [178] for these topics:
so, both of them, i.e.:
[62], Table 17.2 on p. 213 AND
[178], Table 17.2 on p. 235:
are not matching the original source [15e].
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References:
[15 e] US DIVING MANUAL_REV7_ChangeA-6.6.18
[47] Jolie Bookspan, Diving Physiology in Plain English, UHMS 1995, ISBN
0-930406-13-3
[62] "Diving & Subaquatic Medicine", Carl Edmonds, Lowry, Pennefather,
Walker, 4 th. Ed., Arnold, ISBN 0-340-80630-3
[63] "Bennett and Elliott's Physiology and Medicine of Diving" Alf Brubakk,
Neuman et al., 5 th Ed. Saunders, ISBN 0-7020-2571-2
[140] Strauss, Michael B., Aksenov Igor V. (2004) Diving Science: Essential
physiology and medicine for divers. Human Kinetics, ISBN-10: 0-7360-4830-
8, ISBN-13: 978-0-7360-4830-9
[178] Edmonds, Carl; Bennett, Michael et al.(2016) Diving and Subaquatic
Medicine, Fifth Edition, CRC Press; ISBN 978-1-4822-6012-0
[236] Holzapfel, Rudolf B. (1993) Praxis der Tauchmedizin: Physiologie -
Pathologie - Therapie, Thieme, Stuttgart, ISBN 3-13-631302-X
