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This is a report on the content of the 45th annual scientific meeting of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) in Phoenix AZ, USA last June 21-23, 2012. The UHMS is the major representative body for both physicians and scientists in diving and hyperbaric physiology and medicine.

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  • This is a report on the content of the 45th annual scientific meeting of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) in Phoenix AZ, USA last June 21-23, 2012

  • Decompression illness and dive accident management The mechanisms by which bubbles produce the clinical syndrome of decompression illness (DCI) continue to receive attention

  • Correspondence: m.bennett@unsw.edu.au Department of Anaesthesia, Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine, Prince of Wales Hospital and University of New South Wales, Barker St, Randwick, New South Wales 2031, Australia demonstrated the production of pro-inflammatory micro particles (MPs) in the plasma of human volunteers, having previously demonstrated that the injection of such particles into naive mice reproduced the vascular injury associated with DCI

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A report on the annual scientific meeting 2012, Phoenix, AZ, USA June 21–23 This is a report on the content of the 45th annual scientific meeting of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) in Phoenix AZ, USA last June 21-23, 2012.

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