Information about venous gas emboli improves prediction of hypobaric decompression sickness

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 8-16

  Conkin, Johnny ^a,b   Powell, Michael R ^b   Foster, Philip P ^a   Waligora, James M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; GAS EMBOLISM; HUMAN; HYPOBARISM; PULMONARY ARTERY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STRESS;

NASA CENTER JSC; NASA DISCIPLINE ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH;

ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; EMBOLISM, AIR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PULMONARY ARTERY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031983661     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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