Department of Anesthesiology, Amsterdam UMC, Location AMC, 1100 DD Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Royal Netherlands Navy Diving and Submarine Medical Centre, 1780 CA Den Helder, The Netherlands.
Occup Med (Lond). 2023 Jun 26;73(5):231-232. doi: 10.1093/occmed/kqad043.
One of the hazards of occupational diving is pulmonary oxygen toxicity, which can lead to reduced lung diffusion capacity and fibrosis. The current gold standard to determine the ‘safe limits’ for oxygen was developed more than 50 years ago and lacks the accuracy required for occupational specialists. These restrictions may be overcome by new diagnostic methods like exhaled breath analysis, which would allow occupational specialists to accurately monitor pulmonary health in the individual diver, and thus reduce long-term health effects of professional diving.
职业潜水的危害之一是肺部氧气中毒,这可能导致肺扩散能力下降和纤维化。目前用于确定氧气“安全极限”的黄金标准是 50 多年前制定的,缺乏职业专家所需的准确性。呼气分析等新的诊断方法可以克服这些限制,使职业专家能够准确监测个体潜水员的肺部健康,从而降低职业潜水的长期健康影响。