TY  - JOUR
T1  - Pregnancy and travel: The risks of hepatitis and scuba diving
AU  - Curtis RM
Y1  - 1989/07/28
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1989.03430040067015
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 497
EP  - 498
VL  - 262
IS  - 4
N2  - To the Editor. — 
    The article "Pregnancy and Travel"1 is a well-presented reference for physicians who practice travel medicine. Precisely because of its potential use as a general reference, comment needs to be made about the recommendations on scuba diving during pregnancy for recreational divers.Current recommendations of most hyperbaric physicians and the general consensus of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society are that women should not dive during pregnancy.2,3The experimental data from animal models are inconclusive and statistically suboptimal. Pregnancy produces dynamic changes in many body systems— cardiovascular, renal, pulmonary, hematologic, and endocrine. The interaction and subsequent effects of hyperbaria and the differential in the partial pressure of gases (molecular nitrogen, molecular oxygen, and carbon dioxide) are not known. Consequently, it is not possible to establish depth/time profiles that are safe for pregnant women.The recompression therapy of a pregnant woman who incurs decompression sickness or
SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1989.03430040067015
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1989.03430040067015
ER  -