| Abstract |
Goats have been used as an animal model to study the effects of decompression following hyperbaric exposure since the experiments performed by J.S Haldene and other, from which the first decompression table were derived at the beginning of the last century(Edmonds, et al., 1981). Their suitability for such studies lay in there similar physical size to human subject, their ease of handling and husbandry, similarity of lesson pathology and the establishment of a range of easily reconognisable clinical signs which appear to correspond well with recognised signs of the condition in man(Palmer,1997) These signs have been used to create an arbitrary classification of syndromes exhibited by goats into types I and II decompression sickness in a similar way to the classification used in man. |
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