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KMID : 0371019840170010211
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Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
1984 Volume.17 No. 1 p.211 ~ p.216
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An Epidemiological Study on the Decompression Sickness in an Underwater Work
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Abstract
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Forty one male workers employed in an underwater construction field were surveyed in the viewpoints of epidemiological analysis of decompression sickness (caisson´s ´disease). Nineteen out of the entire forty one workers have been, or had been suffering from decompression sickness (as 46.3% of incidence rate) after decompression.
The results obtained were as follows:
1. There was a significant relation between duration of work and incidence of disease.
2. Type II (severe type) comprised majority of cases (16 cases, 84.2%) despite any significant correlations were not present between severity types and recompression: times.
3. Most frequently cited symptoms were lower limb pain (89.50), upper limb pain (79.00 ,
pruritus (68.4%) and so on, however, 10% of patients complained of neurological symptoms.
4. There were not any significant correlations between disease incidence and worker´s age or
relative body weight.
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