What Is Dive Medicine?

Diving medicine, also known as underwater medicine, is a discipline that studies and solves various medical problems during diving operations. It is an emerging applied marginal discipline between diving technology and medical science.

Diving, as a means of mankind's struggle with nature, has developed into a specialized technical category. Diving technology can solve many important tasks in economic construction, national defense construction and scientific research, such as shipwreck (material) salvage,

Because people have to bear underwater

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The mission of diving medicine is to use medical theoretical knowledge and practical techniques to strive to enhance and improve the physical fitness and health of divers, and to ensure that they can safely and smoothly complete various diving tasks from the medical aspect; after the underwater operations are completed, they are guaranteed Safely and quickly return to the surface and atmospheric pressure environment to effectively prevent various diving occupational diseases and diving accidents; once a diving disease occurs, it must be timely and correctly diagnosed and effectively treated; at the same time, it should also be from the perspective of ergonomics In collaboration with the engineering and technical department, we continuously research and update diving equipment, equipment, and improve operating methods and technologies in order to further improve the efficiency of diving operations, increase the diving depth and underwater operation time, and promote the continuous development of diving business.

In countries with more advanced diving careers, diving medicine is usually a professional post-graduate course. After being trained in diving medicine, regular doctors can only work as diving doctors after passing the examination.

Diving requires people to dive directly into the water. Therefore, only after solving a series of medical problems during the dive can people safely and effectively operate underwater. Therefore, diving medicine has always been at the forefront of the development of new diving technology. The development level of diving medicine is an important indicator of the development level of diving technology.

In January 1989, the China Naval Medical Research Institute successfully conducted a 350-meter simulated helium-oxygen saturation-370-meter tour diving experiment. Four naval divers were pressurized in a saturated diving dwelling cabin for 2.5 days; continuously saturated for 72 hours (3 days and nights) at a depth of 350 meters; and dived from this depth into the water tank. Dive rescue and rescue as the content of the diving operation; finally, safely reduced to normal pressure in 14.5 days, and safely out of the cabin. This saturation and cruising depth is not only China, but also the largest depth in Asia. Only a few countries in the world are capable of achieving this depth. The diver did not have obvious high-pressure neurological syndrome under high pressure, and was able to work effectively under 38 atmospheres; no decompression symptoms occurred during decompression. This has reached the advanced level of similar international experiments. The accumulated series of experimental data has high academic value.