Dr. Frans J. Cronjé Practice
MBChB (UP), BSc(Hons), MSc (Aerospace), DOM
Designated Senior Aviation Medical Examiner
Diving Medical Examiner - Class II (Air)
Occupational Medical Practioner
Near Tygervalley, Ridgeworth (Bellville)
PLEASE NOTE: Dr Frans & Sr Lucie Cronje have accepted a training and clinical position in Aerospace and Hyperbaric Medicine at the American Mission Hospital in the Kingdom of Bahrain.
The South African practice will not be active in their absence.
The Booking tab will not be active.
Note there is now also a LIGHT BLUE BUTTON with a list of all Senior DAME's in CT area and a
DARK BLUE BUTTON with all the Diving Medical Practitioners in South Africa on a Map with their details as you Zoom in.
Kindly make appointments with them.
All your records are available to them through the SACAA EMPIC system or SAUHMA Database, so your visit to them should be simple and without any difficulty. I appreciate your support of our practice. Some of you have been with us for many years, and we will miss you. With great appreciation. Dr Frans & Sr Lucie Cronje
All that tingles is not Bends
Decompression illness is an unusual compendium of signs and symptoms associated with compressed gas diving. There are risks of overtreatment and undertreatment. Overtreatment runs the risk of high costs, safety implications of evacuation and recompression, and the significant psychological consequences related to future diving. Undertreatment may result in significant neurological disability, prolonged pain, the need for extended rehabilitation, and inability to return to diving.
This presentation considers the clinical and pathophysiological aspects of decompression illness for the purpose of improving differential diagnosis and differentiating emergency, urgent, timely or non-treatment of possible decompression illness.