Annual Congress Amsterdam 2011

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Live and let dive: diving and lung health

Symposium
Chairs: B. G. Cooper (Birmingham, United Kingdom), R. Van Hulst (Den Helder, Netherlands)
Aims: The aims of this symposium are to:
- explain what the long-term effects are on the lungs of divers and especially on divers with large lungs;
- explain and display new tests, like NO diffusing capacity, as a necessity to include in the physical examination of the professional diver;
- give insight in the respiratory system while diving, with or without apparatus, with or without enriched mixtures.

What we need to tell the patient with lung disease wanting to dive I. Sibley-Calder (Hornsea, United Kingdom)
Pulmonary oxygen toxicity in divers P. Van Ooij (Den Helder, Netherlands)
Diving with large lungs: is the diver at risk or not? S. Watt (Aberdeen, United Kingdom)