Respiratory pattern after wet and dry chamber dives to 0.6 MPa ambient pressure in healthy males

Respiration Physiology

Volumn 118, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 219-226

  Tetzlaff, Kay ^a,b   Staschen, Carl Michael ^b   Koch, Andreas ^a   Heine, Lars ^a   Kampen, Jörg ^a   Neubauer, Birger ^a  

^a Schiffahrtmedizinisches Institut der Marine   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diving, lung function; Mammals, humans; Mechanics of breathing, diving

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRWAY CONDUCTANCE; ARTICLE; BREATHING PATTERN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIVING; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIROMETRY;

ADULT; DECOMPRESSION; DIVING; HUMANS; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; RESPIRATION; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS;

EID: 0032745033     PISSN: 00345687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-5687(99)00090-0     Document Type: Article

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