A Case of Cerebral Air Embolism as a Late Complication of Pulmonary Barotrauma in a Diver

Zygmunt Bluma; Barbara Burzyńska; Bogumił Filipek

doi:10.2478/phr-2025-0011

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A Case of Cerebral Air Embolism as a Late Complication of Pulmonary Barotrauma in a Diver

Polish Hyperbaric Research

Volume 91 (2025): Issue 2 (June 2025)

By: Zygmunt Bluma, Barbara Burzyńska and Bogumił Filipek

Open Access

|Sep 2026

Abstract

The article describes a correctly diagnosed lung pressure injury in a diver - amateur. The case was initially asymptomatic. Then the symptoms of the central nervous system appeared. A patient effectively treated with the use of air recompression tables - healing decompression and then hospitalized at the 7th Naval Hospital in Gdańsk.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/phr-2025-0011 | Journal eISSN: 2084-0535 | Journal ISSN: 1734-7009

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Language: English

Page range: 61 - 64

Accepted on: Aug 13, 2024

Published on: Sep 5, 2026

Published by: Polish Hyperbaric Medicine and Technology Society

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Keywords:

diving accident,

quick exit to surgace,

lung pressure injury,

arterial gas embolism,

neurological symptoms

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