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Neurology
Epilepsy
Severe neurological deficit syndrome
Repeated loss of consciousness
Neuro-surgical, traumatic or ENT
meningeal effraction wounds
Cerebral palsy
Severe cranial trauma: evaluation required(*)
Psychiatry
Severe psychiatric disorder
Chronic alcoholism
Antidepressant, anxiolytic, antipsychotic
or hypnotic treatment
Acute alcohol intoxication
Hematological
conditions
«Peripheral thrombopenia
Congenital thrombopathy»
Repeated phlebitis and/or evidence
of coagulopathy after work-up
Hemophilia: evaluation required(*)
Unexplored phlebitis
Gynecology
Pregnancy
Metabolic
conditions
Insuline-dependent diabetes mellitus:
evaluation required(*)
Oral hypoglycaemic treatment (other
than biguanides)
Tetanitis / Spasmophilia
Dermatology
Different disease entities may lead to temporary or definite contraindication
depending on their severity and/or associated respiratory, cardiovascular or
neurological effects
Gastrointestinal
conditions
Antireflux prosthesis
Hiatal hernia or symptomatic gastro-oe-
sophageal reflux: evaluation required
Any treatment or drugs likely to affect behaviour may lead to contraindication
The occurrence of a disease from this list requires further review.
Conditions marked with (*) require further evaluation, in these cases medical certification
permitting diving can only be issued by a bona fide federal physician.
Following decompression sickness, pulmonary barotrauma, oxygen recompression treatment
or any other severe diving injury, scuba diving may be resumed only after a positive opinion
by a bona fide federal physician or a certified underwater medicine physician (in accordance
with CMPN rules).
Severe metabolic or endocrinologic disorders
