Arm arterial occlusion cuffs as a means of alleviating high +Gz- associated arm pain

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 715-721

  Green, Nicholas D C ^a  

^a Roy AF School of Aviation Medicine   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ADULT; AIRCRAFT; AIRPLANE PILOT; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; GRAVITATIONAL STRESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE;

ACCELERATION; ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; ARM; ARTERIES; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONSTRICTION; GRAVITY SUITS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; HYPERGRAVITY; MALE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; RESPIRATION;

EID: 0030861657     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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