Medical aspects of scuba diving Standards for diabetic divers are workable

BMJ 1994;309:340 (30 July)

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Medical aspects of scuba diving Standards for diabetic divers are workable

EDITOR, - The diving medical committees of the British Sub-AquaClub, the Scottish Sub-Aqua Club, and the Sub-Aqua Association- organisations mentioned in J J W Sykes's review of scuba diving¹- have combined to form a national diving medical committee.This committee acts as the responsible body for amateur scubadiving medicine in Britain, providing medical advice for diversof whatever diving organisation and carrying out research intoaspects of diving medicine.

The article questions whether standards for divers with diabeteswill prove workable. These standards have been published andare available from the headquarters of the diving organisationsmentioned above.² An annual record is kept of all diabetic divers(now about 60) together with details of their treatment, thediving they undertake during the year, and any possible sideeffects related to their diabetes. Seven hundred and two persondives have been logged in two years, with 220 . . . [Full text of this article]

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