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• Health and Medicine
• 05 / 08 / 2010

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HAVANA, Cuba, May 7 (acn) An international symposium on Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine will take place in the Cuban capital from October 5 to the 8 with the participation of several specialists from Latin America.

The event will be an opportunity to exchange experiences among experts who work on the development of treatments and therapies for diving-related diseases and others.

Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine is a discipline that deals with the prevention of injury and illness due to exposure to environments in which the ambient pressure is increased, such as in diving or hyperbaric chamber exposure, and the therapeutic use of high environmental pressure and the delivery of oxygen under high pressure to treat disease.

 The scope of the subspecialty emphasizes the occupational, environmental, safety, and clinical aspects of diving, hyperbaric chamber operations, compressed air work, and hyperbaric oxygen therapy.

One of the Cuban pioneers in the treatment of these diseases using hyperbaric chambers, Dr. Solerme Morales Cudello, told ACN that 75 to 80 percent of patients treated with these procedures show great progress.

Specialists from Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica, Argentina and Brazil have already confirmed their presence in the event that is convened by the Cuban Society of Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine.

Source: ACN