Can You Dive After Decompression?

The U.S. Navy policy is for a return to diving after 30 days for severe decompression sickness

decompression sickness
Decompression sickness (abbreviated DCS; also called divers' disease, the bends, aerobullosis, and caisson disease) is a medical condition caused by dissolved gases emerging from solution as bubbles inside the body tissues during decompression.
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or air embolism (AGE) that completely resolves with treatment. The time period is shorter for pain only DCS.

Can I scuba dive after brain surgery?

Mild TBI and full recovery within one month: The person should not dive for six months. Mild TBI and recovery months, but less than one year, later: No diving for one full year after complete symptom resolution. ... Any symptoms warrant evaluation by brain-injury and dive-medicine specialists. All diving is not the same.

How deep can you dive with decompression?

The need to do decompression stops increases with depth. A diver at 6 metres (20 ft) may be able to dive for many hours without needing to do decompression stops. At depths greater than 40 metres (130 ft), a diver may have only a few minutes at the deepest part of the dive before decompression stops are needed.

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