saturated.state: Saturated Tissue State

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Saturated Tissue State

Description

Computes the amount of inert gas in each compartment of a diver who has reached equilibrium with the breathing gas at the specified depth. The default is a fresh diver with no diving history.

Usage

saturated.state(model="D", depth = 0, g = air)

Arguments

model	The decompression model. An object of class "hm". Defaults to the DSAT (PADI) model.
depth	The diving depth at which saturation is achieved. A single number.
g	The breathing gas. An object of class "gas".

Details

A Haldane-type decompression model describes the diver's body as a set of independent compartments connected directly to the breathing gas and governed by classical diffusion.

This command computes the amount of inert gas in each compartment of a diver who has reached equilibrium with the breathing gas at the specified depth.

The default is a fresh diver (in equilibrium with air at the surface at sea level).

Value

A data frame, with one row for each compartment of the model, and one column for each inert gas in the model (N2 and/or He). Entries in the data frame are tissue tensions in ata.

Author(s)

\adrian

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See Also

hm, haldane, nitrox, trimix

Examples

  fresh <- saturated.state()
  deep  <- saturated.state("ZH", 80, trimix(0.15, 0.5))

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