Meeting Aims
This inaugural meeting will bring together experts in the field of diving and decompression physiology to discuss and educate on the use of ultrasound in assessing the stress caused by decompression and the associated risk of decompression sickness (DCS).
Meeting aims include:
To revisit the importance of bubbles with regard to diving and DCS.
To describe the evolution of ultrasound as a method of discovering and monitoring bubbles.
To examine the utility that ultrasound data can provide in terms of investigating the aetiology of DCS, in feeding models or helping to develop new diving tables.
To ensure that the importance of effective ultrasound monitoring is understood, with regard to standardising monitoring protocols across research groups. The need for correct handling of data.
To explore the technology that is available and evaluate the benefits and drawbacks of each for use in diving research today. Where is ultrasound going? Dual frequency techniques and possibilities.
Ultrasound 2015
25th and 26th August 2015 - 3 days after EUBS in Amsterdam.
Travel straight on - take a short flight to Copenhagen, then the direct
train to Karlskrona from the airport!
Guest Speakers
Guest speakers include:
Ron Nishi and Alf Brubakk who saw the inception of ultrasound as a decompression investigative tool.
Neal Pollock and Mikael Gennser, who use ultrasound in their well regarded current research on decompression physiology.
Peter Germonpre, past president of EUBS and hyperbaric specialist will speak on bubble counting systems.
David Doolette, the noted research physiologist from the US Navy Experimental Dive Unit, will speak about experimental design using bubble data.
Andreas Mollerlokken and Lesley Blogg, co-authors of a recent review on the use of ultrasound in diving research today (1), will be running 'hands on' workshops, using Doppler and 2D Ultrasound to observe bubbles and discuss methodological concerns.
Peter Wilmshurst, an eminent cardiologist and advisor to the diving industry will be on hand to lecture on cardiac and vascular ultrasound monitoring techniques, PFO identification and examples of shunts.
References
(1) Ultrasound detection of vascular decompression bubbles: the influence of new technology and considerations on bubble load. Blogg SL, Gennser M, Møllerløkken A, Brubakk AO. Diving Hyperb Med. 2014 Mar;44(1):35-44. Review.
David Doolette Ron Nishi Alf Brubakk
Neal Pollock Peter Wilmshurst Mikael Gennser Peter Germonpre Lesley Blogg Andreas Mollerlokken
