Interests and Experience

* Prophylactic measures to be taken against the onset of decompression sickness:

  • the search for a 'magic bullet'
  • the effect of oxygen, carbon dioxide and nitric oxide on bubble evolution
  • stepped decompression profiles
  • exercise as a prophylactic

 

* The aetiology of decompression sickness

* Audio bubble monitoring using Doppler ultrasound and the Kisman Masurel scoring system

* 2D Ultrascound imaging of bubbles in the heart

* Submarine escape and rescue

* Evaluation of monitoring techniques and equipment
* Aviation - environment and decompression sickness
* The central control of diving birds and mammals
* The use of perfluorocarbons as liquid breathers and blood extenders

* Altitude sickness

* Equine exercise physiology
* Animal welfare and fitness