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I was taught (and teach) to give fluids (up to one litre per hour, small sips only) to suspected DCI casualties except when there is evidence of barotrauma (burst lung) as indicated by severe chest pain and/or blood in sputum (saliva and mucous), because in this event surgery will be required to treat the barotrauma before recompression therapy can commence and administration of fluids would delay surgery |