Inner ear decompression sickness following altitude chamber operation

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1106-1109

  Nachum, Zohar ^a,b   Shupak, Avi ^a   Spitzer, Orna ^a   Sharoni, Zohara ^a   Ramon, Yitzchak ^a   Abramovich, Amir ^a   Shahal, Baruch ^a  

^a ISRAEL NAVAL MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (Israel)

^b HAEMEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Altitude chamber; Decompression sickness; Hyperbaric oxygenation; Hypobaric chamber; Inner ear

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; INNER EAR; INNER EAR DISEASE; MALE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; ALTITUDE; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EAR, INNER; ELECTRONYSTAGMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; HYPERBARIC OXYGENATION; ISRAEL; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; NAVAL MEDICINE; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION TESTS;

EID: 0033404368     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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