Clinical Review
Scuba Diving Safety: A Case Report of Diving Injury in the Red Sea
Emergency Medicine. 2013 April;45(4):9-10, 20-21
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Moses Washington, MD, and Michael Touger, MD
A 28-year-old, previously healthy woman presented to the ED of Jacobi Medical Center, New York City, with bilateral shoulder and knee pain and shortness of breath. She had arrived at New York's JFK International Airport from Moscow, Russia, 3 days before presentation. A recreational scuba diver born in the Ukraine and currently residing in New York, she had been training in underwater videography in the Red Sea off the coast of Egypt.