Circulating bubbles and breath-hold underwater fishing divers: A two-dimensional echocardiography and continuous wave Doppler study

Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 309-314

  Boussuges, A ^a   Abdellaoui, S ^a   Gardette, B ^a   Sainty, J M ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Breath hold diving; Bubbles; Continuous wave Doppler; Decompression; Two dimensional echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BREATHING; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; TIME;

ADULT; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; RESPIRATION; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 0031299759     PISSN: 10662936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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