Helium and oxygen treatment of severe air-diving-induced neurologic decompression sickness

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 305-311

  Shupak, Avi ^a   Melamed, Yehuda ^a   Ramon, Yitzchah ^a   Bentur, Yedidia ^a   Abramovich, Amir ^a   Kol, Shaliar ^a  

^a ISRAEL NAVAL MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELIUM; OXYGEN;

AIR; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030907382     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.1997.00550150061017     Document Type: Article

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