Quote: (Originally Posted by
Gene_Hobbs)
There is a fair amount of information getting out about pacemakers under hyperbaric conditions. We have had a few patients treated now that had them and no problems.
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'debersole' had a nice post on this on ScubaBoard a while back but the site is down and I could not find it. He will probably be along shortly.
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Yeah, Doug is quite knowledgable about this.
Most dive docs would say, that it's not so much the pacer itself, but the reason for it in the first place, that would potentially disqualify somone from diving. Of course if that's not the question at hand here, then I'll go mind my own buissness
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All pacemakers that I'm aware of are at least rated to 2.4 ATA