Epidemiological Assessment of Technical Diving Accidents in Mainland France and Factors Predictive of Severity (TEKCare)

Regional University Hospital Center (CHRU)

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Nitrogen Narcosis; Pulmonary Edema - Acute; Oxygen Toxicity; Decompression Sickness; Carbon Dioxide Poisoning

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06627153

29BRC24.0150 - TEKCare

Details and patient eligibility

About

This retrospective study aims at an epidemiological description of the clinical presentation of medical problems in technical diving. It assess anthropometric data, diving experience and dive planification, clinical presentation, treatment received and pronostic to understand specificity of this community.

Full description

In recent years, the increased availability of breathing gas mixtures, together with progressive technical development of specialized diving equipment, has contributed to expansion of the diver's community. Deep and long dives expose to decompression sickness (DCS) risk and hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) is the definitive treatment. Incidence, clinical expression or prognosis of pathological events after technical diving might differ from recreational ones. A better knowledge of these specificity will facilitate risk assessment, analysis and medical care for hyperbaric physician community.

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Civilian technical diver
• Diving accident history (decompression sickness, biochemical accident or immersion pulmonary edema) following a technical dive in a trimix and/or rebreather dive
• Treated in a hyperbaric center on the coast of mainland France

Exclusion criteria

• Participation denied by the diver
• Diving incident diagnosis not retained by the hyperbaric physician