Arterial gas embolism following a 1-meter ascent during helicopter escape training: A case report

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 63-64

  Benton, Peter J ^a   Woodfine, James D ^a   Westwood, Paul R ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF NAVAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b Royal Naval Air Station Yeovilton   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRPLANE PILOT; ARTERY EMBOLISM; ARTICLE; BREATHING APPARATUS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; GAS EMBOLISM; HELICOPTER; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PARESTHESIA;

AVIATION; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; EMBOLISM, AIR; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; HYPERBARIC OXYGENATION; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM AND THROMBOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY PERSONNEL;

EID: 0030021682     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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