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Publisher Summary This chapter describes the psychological, physiological, and biophysical studies of narcosis. The problem of inert gas narcosis, like the majority of other saturation diving problems, requires a multidisciplinary approach to measure effectively and understand the mechanisms involved and to develop a means for its prevention. With the advent of more sophisticated diving techniques, major concern in the matter of man's limitations at depth has shifted from decompression sickness to other factors such as hydrostatic pressure, the narcotic action of inert gases, and respiratory embarrassment. The chapter presents a series of experiments in which electrodes were attached to the vertex of the subjects head and to the right or left occipital and sphenoidal areas. The possible synergistic effects on the narcosis of pressure or O2 were studied through the use of the AER and multiplication test with five divers. |
