Wastwater
A DIVER was airlifted to hospital after suffering from the bends when diving in the Lake District.
The Great North Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS) was called to the incident in Wasdale, Cumbria, at 1.50pm yesterday.
The GNAAS doctor-led trauma team assessed and treated the 25-year-old man, before transporting him to the nearest hyperbaric chamber in Wirral for further treatment. The flight took 37 minutes, and the patient was stable on arrival.
Decompression sickness (DCS; also known as divers' disease, the bends or caisson disease) describes a condition arising from dissolved gases coming out of solution into bubbles inside the body on depressurization.
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