What is "recompression"

Usage examples of "recompression".

Simple chamber recompression with doses of dextran and heparin would have prevented the embolism, but all ignored my weak entreaties on the boat.

Most of it was available locally, but the recompression chamber was more difficult.

I was too busy drilling his wife into the routine of learning how to use the air compressor and the recompression chamber.

The recompression chamber had been charged with heliox, to avoid the complications of high-pressure nitrogen.

The jet engines screamed as the chopper swooped away and raced toward the recompression chamber at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx.

There were people looking through the little portholes of the recompression chamber, telling her what to do, excited voices speaking in Tagalog, although all Tagalog sounds excited to me.

We were in that recompression chamber for two days and two nights, the sickness slowly seeping out of me.

The longest of my sorties was about 2 hours and the shortest only 15 minutes, but each one involved 20 full minutes of decompression at the start and 20 more of recompression at the end.

The hours in the recompression chamber, hours of crushing exhaustion punctuated by moments of sheer terror as consciousness sent him back to the instant of panic over and over again.

While recompression could be possible within the first minute, the astronaut would not be able to help himselfa quick paralysis would be followed by brief convulsions before the body settled into its final paralysis.