Outcome after treatment of neurological decompression illness is predicted by a published clinical scoring system

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 517-521

  Pitkin, Andrew D ^a   Benton, Peter J ^a   Broome, Jonathan R ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF NAVAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decompression sickness; Diving; Hyperbaric oxygenation; Neurologic examination; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED KINGDOM;

DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMANS; HYPERBARIC OXYGENATION; NAVAL MEDICINE; PARALYSIS; PARAPLEGIA; PARESTHESIA; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINATION DISORDERS;

EID: 0032936351     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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