Predicting risk of decompression sickness in humans from outcomes in sheep

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1920-1929

  Ball, Robert ^a,c   Lehner, Charles E ^b   Parker, Erich C ^a  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c CENTER FOR BIOLOGICS EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Allometric scaling; Decompression illness; Diving; Hyperbaric; Risk prediction

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; HYPERBARISM; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHEEP;

EID: 0033065442     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jappl.1999.86.6.1920     Document Type: Article

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