Scuba decompression illness and diving fatalities in an overseas military community

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 325-333

  Arness, Mark K ^a,b  

^a Kadena Air Base   (Japan)

^b Robins AFB   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; COLD; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DEHYDRATION; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIVING; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MILITARY MEDICINE; RISK FACTOR; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; DIVING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030909067     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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