Palmer A C, Blakemore W F, Payne J E, Sillence A
Undersea Biomed Res. 1978 Sep;5(3):275-86.
An investigation was undertaken to determine whether permanent damage to the central nervous system (CNS) is associated with transient decompression sickness in the goat. Twelve goats were compressed in air at 100 fsw for one hour. After decompression over a period of 2.5 min, seven animals showed signs of decompression sickness and four of these were treated by recompression in oxygen. Residual clinical signs after 12 h were present in one animal only. The seven affected goats were killed 48 h after decompression. Lesions in the CNS (other than hemorrhage) were confined to the spinal cord of three animals that had shown paralysis, and consisted of infarction of white matter with occasional microthrombi and perivascular proteinaceous edema of the gray matter. In all seven animals, there was hemorrhage in the spinal cord and in four, hemorrhage in the brain. Infarction of the spinal cord was not present in the four animals that had shown only slight clinical signs (limping); one of these goats had been treated by recompression in oxygen.
开展了一项调查，以确定山羊的中枢神经系统（CNS）永久性损伤是否与短暂性减压病有关。12只山羊在100英尺海水深度的空气中压缩1小时。在2.5分钟的减压过程后，7只动物出现减压病症状，其中4只通过在氧气中再加压进行治疗。仅1只动物在12小时后仍有残留临床症状。7只受影响的山羊在减压后48小时被处死。中枢神经系统的病变（除出血外）局限于3只出现麻痹的动物的脊髓，包括白质梗死，偶尔有微血栓形成，以及灰质的血管周围蛋白质性水肿。在所有7只动物中，脊髓均有出血，4只动物脑部有出血。4只仅表现出轻微临床症状（跛行）的动物脊髓未出现梗死；其中1只山羊通过在氧气中再加压进行了治疗。
