Doppler bubble detection after hyperbaric exposure

South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 146-154

  Walker, Margaret ^a  

^a ROYAL HOBART HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bubbles; Decompression illness; Investigations

Indexed keywords

AIR EMBOLISM; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CLASSIFICATION; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; MEDICINE; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; VEIN; VENOUS PRESSURE;

BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; EMBOLISM, AIR; HUMANS; HYPERBARIC OXYGENATION; NAVAL MEDICINE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; VEINS; VENOUS PRESSURE;

EID: 0030225367     PISSN: 08131988     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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