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An Innovative Approach to Medical Challenges of Diving.

An experienced diver, Dr. Michael B. Strauss is familiar with almost all types of equipment, from snorkel to closed-circuit scuba to tethered diving out of a personal transfer capsule.

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While my classmates were doing their residencies, establishing their practices, and raising families, I was ‘playing.’ It afforded me such experiences as serving on a nuclear submarine, caring for Navy divers in the Philippines & Vietnam, and being the medical officer for UDT and SEAL Teams with full participation in their training. When I started my private orthopedic practice, I was still in “la-la land” and decided to divide my time among orthopedic surgery, hyperbaric & diving medicine and the reserve Navy SEAL Teams—which culminated in a 33 ½ year affiliation. I am an active grandparent and continue full time as a clinical professor, surgeon and mentor of residents for limb threatening foot & ankle infections, deformities, and failed amputations using minimally invasive surgeries. This has led me to classify problem wounds, pressure injuries, wellness, and patient goals with simplified, objective, and user friendly scores. I have authored texts on MasterMinding Wounds and Diving Science, and multiple publications on these subjects.

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Complementary Selections Introduction.

The Complementary Selections span the time frame from my 1971 mammalian diving paper to a yet-to-be-published writing on pain causes associated with diving. In between are papers on Decompression Science and Disordered Decompression. This latter paper is particularly noteworthy since it explains why decompression sickness occurs
at the sites it does—something not well elaborated in the diving medicine literature.