Exercise-enhanced preoxygenation increases protection from decompression sickness

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 618-624

  Webb, James T ^a,c   Fischer, Michele D ^a   Heaps, Cristine L ^a   Pilmanis, Andrew A ^b  

^a KRUG Life Sciences Inc   (United States)

^b Armstrong Laboratory   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; ERGOMETRY; EXERCISE; INCIDENCE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; OXYGENATION;

NASA DISCIPLINE ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; NON-NASA CENTER;

ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; ERGOMETRY; EXERCISE; HUMANS; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; NITROGEN; OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE; OXYGEN; OXYGEN INHALATION THERAPY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0029892738     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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