Utility of Doppler-detectable microbubbles in the diagnosis and treatment of decompression sickness

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 151-158

  Kumar, Vasantha K ^b   Billica, Roger D ^a   Waligora, James M ^a  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; SCREENING;

NASA CENTER JSC; NASA DISCIPLINE ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; NASA DISCIPLINE NUMBER 02-30; NASA DISCIPLINE NUMBER 04-10; NASA PROGRAM CLINICAL MEDICINE; NASA PROGRAM ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH;

AEROSPACE MEDICINE; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; HUMANS; HYPERBARIC OXYGENATION; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0031031668     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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