Modeling the effects of exercise during 100% oxygen prebreathe on the risk of hypobaric decompression sickness

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 199-204

  Loftin, Karin C ^a   Conkin, Johnny ^b   Powell, Michael R ^c  

^a KRUG Life Sciences Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^c NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DOSE RESPONSE; EXERCISE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOBARISM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN;

NASA CENTER JSC; NASA DISCIPLINE ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; NASA DISCIPLINE NUMBER 04-10; NASA DISCIPLINE NUMBER 70-30; NASA PROGRAM DATA ANALYSIS; NASA PROGRAM ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH;

CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EXERCISE THERAPY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; OXYGEN INHALATION THERAPY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0031042859     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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