Several organs are susceptible to barotrauma, however the cause is well understood and procedures for avoidance are clear.
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Upon release, fish with barotrauma will be unable to swim or dive due to the swollen swim-bladder.
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Some show the diver's rate of ascent and descent, which can be is useful for avoiding barotrauma.
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Expanding gases will generally pass passively out of the airway during rescue from depth, and pulmonary barotrauma is rare.
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In half of these cases a cause for the barotrauma was identified, but a roughly equal number remain unexplained.
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Explosive decompression of a hyperbaric environment can produce severe barotrauma, followed by severe decompression bubble formation and other related injury.
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Dropping weights increases the risk of barotrauma and decompression sickness due to the possibility of an uncontrollable ascent to the surface.
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To avoid barotrauma, the diver equalises the pressure in all air spaces with the surrounding water pressure when changing depth.
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Rapid altitude changes with accompanying changes in ambient pressure exposed the aircrews to an increasing number of episodes of sinus barotrauma.
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If the cannula did seal, the high flow volume could produce excessive pressure in the airway and might provoke barotrauma.
