Tolerance to head-up tilt and suspension with elevated legs

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 781-784

  Madsen, Per ^a,c   Svendsen, Lars Bo ^a   Jørgensen, Lisbeth G ^b   Matzen, Steen ^b   Jansen, Erik ^c   Secher, Niels H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Department of Vascular Surgery ^*  (Denmark)

^c Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; FEMALE; HEAD TILTING; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTENSION; MALE; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYNCOPE;

ADULT; BLOOD VOLUME; BRADYCARDIA; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION, ORTHOSTATIC; MALE; SYNCOPE; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS;

EID: 0031928648     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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