Guidelines for treatment of decompression illness

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 234-243

  Moon, Richard E ^b   Sheffield, Paul J ^a  

^a Hyperbaric Medicine Center   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIVING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; REVIEW; TREATMENT PLANNING;

AEROSPACE MEDICINE; ALGORITHMS; ANTICOAGULANTS; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; FLUID THERAPY; HUMANS; HYPERBARIC OXYGENATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; STEROIDS;

EID: 0031059351     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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