Get Yourself Up to Speed On the Causes, Symptoms and Treatment of SIPE

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One way to understand dive accidents and deaths is through descriptive case studies, but compared to Europe and Australia, few cases get published in the U.S. They're important, especially since in the last decade, diving doctors have come to recognize SIPE as a hidden cause of diving and snorkeling deaths. Once brushed off as drowning, Swimmers' (or Scuba divers') Immersion Pulmonary Edema is responsible for more "mysterious" drowning deaths than was thought.

A diver's first symptom is feeling unable to breathe, which he typically attributes to a failing regulator that isn't delivering air. The solution? Get the diver out of the water immediately, because his own body fluids, rather than returning via his blood to his bladder, are flooding his lungs....

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