DAN Education Network

21/07/2022

Visual summary of the study. 12 participants were exposed to normobaric air and oxygen, before pressurised to 1.4 and 2.8 ATA (in random order). EEG Connectivity did not show a change, while complexi...

24/04/2022

Immersion-Induced Mitral Regurgitation
A Novel Risk Factor for Swimming-Induced Pulmonary Edema

https://journal.chestnet.org/article/S0012-3692(21)04203-3/fulltext

24/04/2022

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10439-022-02919-y

Divers who wish to prolong their time underwater while carrying less equipment often use devices called rebreathers, which recycle the gas expired after each breath instead of discarding it as bubbles. However, rebreathers’ need to replace oxygen used by breathing creates a failure mechanism that ...

11/06/2021

https://blog.frontiersin.org/2021/06/10/frontiers-physiology-gene-expression-changes-diagnostic-bends-divers/

First study to show gene expression changes in divers with ‘the bends’ show role of genes for inflammation and immunity: Frontiers in Physiology

16/04/2021

Active thermal heating systems will keep you warm in cold water and improve diver safety, but can they also increase your risk of getting bent? Our science geek Reilly Fogarty reviews the current conflicting research, teases out the factors involved, and identifies a ‘Best Practices’ strategy fo...

13/04/2021

https://dan.org/alert-diver/article/physics-biophysics-and-decompression-sickness/

Jens-Christian Meiners, Ph.D., a professor of physics and biophysics at the University of Michigan, focuses his laboratory’s research on mechanics of biological systems, primarily the dynamical properties of DNA and DNA–protein complexes.

12/04/2021

“I can’t breathe!”. Bill was a middle-aged man with a history of high blood pressure who was enjoying a wreck dive off the Northeast United States. He was diving a 14/7 mm farmer john wetsuit […]

05/04/2021

https://gue.com/blog/in-hot-water-do-active-heating-systems-increase-dcs-risk/?fbclid=IwAR0Uz4O0UP4iVLYv9JdnH8HZciCM4ik7elMxUzJhIHWe_L3vDw4-mefuaeo

Active thermal heating systems will keep you warm in cold water and improve diver safety, but can they also increase your risk of getting bent? Our science geek Reilly Fogarty reviews the current conflicting research, teases out the factors involved, and identifies a ‘Best Practices’ strategy fo...

19/03/2021

When and how should you return to diving following a traumatic brain injury? GUE’s NextGen Scholar, Kiwi water-woman Annika Andressen spent eight months figuring out the answers to those questions with the help of Dr. Simon Mitchell, after suffering a concussion while surfing. Here is her tale of ...

19/03/2021

With divers soon returning to the loop, the Rebreather Training Council (RTC) is currently considering a number of initiatives to improve rebreather diving safety. One of those is to recommend the use of mouthpiece retaining straps aka “gag straps” to prevent drowning in the event of loss of con...

19/03/2021

Though your chances of getting bent are relatively low, your risk increases five to 13-fold in the presence of a patent foramen ovale (PFO), which may enlarge and become problematic with age. Skin bends anyone? Here cardiologist and rebreather instructor Doug Ebersole explains the latest research, w...

14/03/2021

The Research Roadmap 2021 and Beyond….. Live Event: Thursday, March 18, 2021 7PM ET At DAN our goal is to make diving safer for everyone. To achieve this, we rely on help from divers, physicians and scientists around the world who contribute ideas and solutions that enhance our understanding of ho...