Figure 2.

Typical appearance of skin lesions in a swine DCS model. Swine were subjected to a simulated air dive to 40 m for 35 min with a decompression in 11 min, skin appearance were observed and recorded. The hair had been removed prior to the experiment. (I): Erythematous skin, erythematous skin with purple-red discrete macular lesions; (II): Marbling, evolving purple-red marbling; (III): Homogenous purple-red lesion, purple-red homogenous, macular lesion; (IV): Fading lesion, purple-red or blue-black shrinking, and fading macular lesion with reappearance of marbling; (V): Scattered lesion, blue-black scattered, and fading macular lesion; (VI): Remnant, faintly visible blue-black discrete macular lesion.