Bolton M E
Undersea Biomed Res. 1980 Sep;7(3):183-9.
Scuba diving is an increasingly popular sport among women of childbearing age. It causes physiological changes that are possibly lethal or teratogenic to the fetus. The subject of diving during pregnancy is seldom mentioned in diving courses, however, and few obstetricians are familiar with the physiology of diving. The study employed mailed questionnaires for description and comparison of the extent of diving and obstetric and fetal outcome of 208 women divers, 136 of whom dived during one or more pregnancies. Depths to which these women dived averaged 42.6 ft; 24 women, however, reported dives deeper than 99 ft during the first trimester. I analyzed the prevalence of six specific fetal complications and found that the frequency of birth defects was significantly greater among children from pregnancies during which women dived (P < 0.05) but was within the range for the general population.
水肺潜水在育龄女性中越来越受欢迎。它会引起一些生理变化，这些变化可能对胎儿具有致命性或致畸性。然而，潜水课程中很少提及孕期潜水的问题，而且很少有产科医生熟悉潜水生理学。该研究通过邮寄问卷来描述和比较208名女性潜水员的潜水程度以及产科和胎儿结局，其中136人在一次或多次孕期进行了潜水。这些女性的平均潜水深度为42.6英尺；然而，有24名女性报告在孕早期潜水深度超过99英尺。我分析了六种特定胎儿并发症的发生率，发现女性在孕期潜水所生子女的出生缺陷发生率显著更高（P < 0.05），但仍在一般人群的范围内。
