A probabilistic model of hypobaric decompression sickness based on 66 chamber tests

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 176-183

  Conkin, Johnny ^a   Kumar, K Vasantha ^b   Powell, Michael R ^a   Foster, Philip P ^a   Waligora, James M ^a  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^b KRUG Life Sciences Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; DECOMPRESSION; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; EXERCISE; HYPOBARISM; SURVIVAL;

NASA CENTER JSC; NASA DISCIPLINE ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH;

ADULT; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; EXERCISE; EXTRAVEHICULAR ACTIVITY; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RISK; SPACE FLIGHT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030057044     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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