Contents:
- Medical Video: What Is Barotrauma In Lungs?
- The risk of barotrauma during diving is life threatening
- How can pulmonary barotrauma occur while diving?
Medical Video: What Is Barotrauma In Lungs?
Scuba diving in the open ocean is exciting. However, this activity certainly cannot be done carelessly by people. If you intend to go scuba diving, you must prepare to get a certificate or diving permit.Because the risk of diving is very high and varied.
It is not impossible, diving activities that are not well prepared will be life threatening. One problem that often appears and can be fatal is pulmonary barotrauma.
Actually, why can pulmonary barotrauma occur? How to prevent pulmonary barotrauma while diving?
The risk of barotrauma during diving is life threatening
Barotrauma is an injury that occurs in body tissues due to the pressure of gas entering the body. Differences in body air pressure with conditions under the sea when diving cause respiratory problems. This can make the body tissue damaged, even die. This health disorder may occur in all parts of the body, but the most common conditions for this condition are the eyes, ears, nose and lungs.
When diving, barotrauma will be very fatal if it occurs in the lungs. Actually, when diving, your body tries to adapt to the pressure around it. Well, the deeper you dive, the volume (level) of gas will be thinning.
When you dive into a deeper area, the air pressure is so high that the volume of air in the lungs decreases. If this continues to occur, the lung will experience a lack of air and can cause lung tissue to die. If divers use respirators, then for inexperienced divers, they will breathe air quickly and a lot, due to feeling lack of air when diving.
Well, but a bigger problem will occur when the diver returns to the surface. When rising to the surface, air pressure will decrease and the volume of air in the lungs increases. If divers are too rushed to rise to the surface or hold their breath while still in the water, then the air in the lungs will increase and expand. This condition then causes the lung air sac to rupture due to most gas. At that time, divers will feel pain in the chest to even experience a bloody cough.
How can pulmonary barotrauma occur while diving?
All divers are at risk of experiencing this and barotrauma is the main cause of death when doing scuba diving. For that, there are a number of things you can do so that this doesn't happen to you, namely:
- Never hold your breath in water. Although all divers know that they cannot hold their breath in the water, due to certain conditions, many beginner divers do it. This can happen when divers panic.
- Go up to the surface slowly, don't rush. Preferably, swimming speed when rising to the surface is not more than 9 meters per minute.
- Make sure that you are physically and mentally ready. Not only memorizing techniques, but you must be mentally prepared. This affects your condition while diving. Preparation for scuba diving must be taken into account.
- Don't dive if you have previous breathing problems. To find out if you can dive or not, you should do a physical examination and ask your doctor about this.
