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    A rat model of chronic moderate alcohol consumption and risk of decompression sickness

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    Buzzacott, Peter
    Mazur, A.
    Wang, Q.
    Lambrechts, K.
    Theron, M.
    Guerrero, F.
    Date
    2015
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Buzzacott, P. and Mazur, A. and Wang, Q. and Lambrechts, K. and Theron, M. and Guerrero, F. 2015. A rat model of chronic moderate alcohol consumption and risk of decompression sickness. Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine. 45 (2): pp. 75-78.
    Source Title
    Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine
    ISSN
    1833-3516
    School
    School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/72779
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    Abstract

    © 2015, South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society. All rights reserved. Introduction: This study aimed to establish if chronic, moderate, pre-dive alcohol consumption had any affect upon susceptibility to decompression sickness (DCS) in rats. Methods: A treatment group of 15 rats were given water containing 12 mL·L-1 of ethanol for four weeks. Controls (n = 15) were given water. Both groups were compressed with air to 1,000 kPa, followed by staged decompression. An additional 30 control rats from a similar previous experiment were added, raising the control-treatment ratio to 3:1. Results: Rats in the treatment group consumed the equivalent of an 80 kg man drinking 2 L of 5% alcohol by volume beer per day, which is three times the recommended daily limit for men. Overall, comparing the treatment group with the combined control groups neither weight (P = 0.23) nor alcohol consumption (P = 0.69) were associated with DCS. Discussion: We observed that chronic, moderate alcohol consumption prior to compression was neither prophylactic nor deleterious for DCS in young, male rats.

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