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Hyperbaric chamber simulates underwater air-pressure so doctors can treat divers who suffer from the bends -- too rapid decompression. Patients with o(...)
Hyperbaric chamber simulates underwater air-pressure so doctors can treat divers who suffer from the bends -- too rapid decompression. Patients with o(...)

Hyperbaric chamber simulates underwater air-pressure so doctors can treat divers who suffer from the bends -- too rapid decompression. Patients with o(...)

Date7/11/1975
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Original Toronto Star caption: Hyperbaric chamber simulates underwater air-pressure so doctors can treat divers who suffer from the bends -- too rapid decompression. Patients with other ailments also benefit from the chamber. Jennifer Waring, the only nurse at Toronto General Hospital Permanently assigned to work in the chamber, readies patient Julia Kovacevic for treatment.
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Writhing in pain from the bends-- nitrogen bubbles in the blood following rapid change from high to normal air pressure--which seized him after work i(...)
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