This resource remains the leading text on diving medicine, written to fulfil the requirements of any general physician wishing to advise their patients appropriately when a diving trip is planned, for those accompanying diving expeditions, or when a doctor is required to assess and treat anyone who has been involved in a diving accident. Established and emerging diseases of diving medicine are all covered in full, as is the latest in types of diving, and associated equipment. Each medical disorder is discussed from a historical, etiological, clinical, pathological, preventative and therapeutic perspective.