Reduction in pressure to lower than normal sea level atmospheric pressure
Hypobaric decompression is the reduction in ambient pressure below the normal range of sea level atmospheric pressure. Altitude decompression is hypobaric decompression which is the natural consequence of unprotected elevation to altitude, while other forms of hypobaric decompression are due to intentional or unintentional release of pressurization of a pressure suit or pressurized compartment, vehicle or habitat, and may be controlled or uncontrolled, or the reduction of pressure in a hypobaric chamber.[citation needed]
Altitude decompression may occur as a decompression from saturation at a lower altitude, or as decompression from an excursion to a lower altitude, in the case of people living at high altitude, making a short duration trip to low altitude, and returning, or a person decompressing from a dive at altitude, which is a special case of diving decompression.[1]
Decompression has physical effects on gas filled spaces and on liquids, particularly when they contain dissolved gases. Physiological effects of decompression are due to these physical effects and the consequential effects on the living tissues, mostly as a result of the formation and growth of bubbles, the expansion of gas filled spaces, and adverse reactions in the injured tissues. Formation and growth of bubbles due to reduced pressure can be due to reduction in solubility of dissolved gases as described by Henry's Law, with nucleation and growth of bubbles in supersaturated liquids, or due to boiling of liquids when the pressure is reduced below the vapour pressure for the temperature of the liquid.[citation needed]
Both rate of decompression and pressure difference affect the type of injury likely and the severity of the consequences. Barotrauma is more likely to occur for rapid decompression, while decompression sickness is more likely with a large pressure drop, but both can occur simultaneously. Hypoxia risk depends mainly on the oxygen partial pressure after decompression.[citation needed]
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