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Q: What is the gas that causes decompression sickness?
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Does decompression sickness affect the bones?

how does decompression sickness effect the body


What gas is most directly responsible for the bends or decompression sickness that divers may experience?

Nitrogen.


Who gets decompression sickness?

Scuba divers who surface too quickly after a deep dive are prone to decompression sickness.


Another term for decompression sickness?

The Bends.


What is another name for decompression sickness?

The Bends


What is decompression illness?

It is any illness that is related to a release of pressure from the body such as barotrauma .. baro (pressure) trauma (injury). It includes decompression sickness, but it is not limited to decompression sickness. It is also not limited to diving even though that is what is mostly thought of when discussing decompression illness or DCI.


What are Illness or sickness of nervous system?

Decompression Sickness-rapid reduction of the atmospheric pressure


Can one get Decompression sickness from getting buried in sand?

No


What do divers call a bubble of gas formed in their circulatory system?

The condition where gas forms bubbles in a diver's system is known as decompression sickness, or more commonly referred to as, the bends. The only effective treatment to avoid severe pain and death is time in a decompression chamber.


What decompression sickness do scuba divers suffer from?

It is called "The Bends"


What is decompression sickness also called?

It is sometimes called the bends


The bends are symptomatic of what?

The bends are also known as decompression sickness.