Talk:Decompression illness
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[edit] Decompression Sickness vs Decompression Illness
I don't believe this page should be merged with Decompression sickness, as decompression sickness (DCS) and decompression illness (DCI) have important distinctions in the diving (and dive medicine) community.
DCS is commonly known as the bends, and is caused by a drop in pressure causing gas to come out of solution in the body's tissues and fluids.
DCI is a group of disorders, usually understood to mean both DCS, and air embolisms. Barotrauma is also associated to rapid assent, but is due to overexpansion of the confined air in the lungs as a result of holding ones breath which causes it to pop - see pneumothorax.
In other words, DCS is a type of DCI.
By merging the two articles, anyone wishing to find out information about DCI is instead given a lot of information about one type of injury (DCS), but very little about the other (barotrauma). It also makes it less obvious that there is a distinction between the two terms.
The DCI page does have the potential to become a free-standing (albeit short) article, with a mention of common symptoms and first aid, as well as a brief explanation as to the differences between DCS and an air embolism.
--PJF (talk) 12:47, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)
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- I'm not sure you read this article carefully, because it's already exactly what you request. It's an article on DCI, which says that DCI is composed of DCS and AGE (which means DCS is a type of DCI), and has summaries of each, WITH links to longer {main} articles on each of these (READ the main articles please!). What more could you ask for? That structure is way Wikipedia's supposed to be. We haven't merged anything. The separate longer articles on DCS and AGE exist. Both of course refer to other things, which is why used alone they link to disambig (dab) pages which include them both.
As for barotrauma, DCI is barotrauma due to decompression. Barotrauma due to simple compression is something else-- compression barotrauma, once supposes. SBHarris 04:40, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
- I'm not sure you read this article carefully, because it's already exactly what you request. It's an article on DCI, which says that DCI is composed of DCS and AGE (which means DCS is a type of DCI), and has summaries of each, WITH links to longer {main} articles on each of these (READ the main articles please!). What more could you ask for? That structure is way Wikipedia's supposed to be. We haven't merged anything. The separate longer articles on DCS and AGE exist. Both of course refer to other things, which is why used alone they link to disambig (dab) pages which include them both.
