altitude decompression sickness

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Wilderness medicine A permutation of decompression sickness–which almost invariably affects scuba divers–that affects those ascending above 5500 meters Management Hyperbaric oxygen. See Hyperbaric oxygen therapy, Mountain sickness. Cf (the) Bends, Decompression sickness.

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