Predicting time to decompression illness during exercise at altitude, based on formation and growth of bubbles

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 279, Issue 6 48-6, 2000, Pages

  Foster, Philip P ^a   Feiveson, Alan H ^b   Boriek, Aladin M ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cox Snell residuals; Cumulative volume of bubbles; Instantaneous probability of pain; Rate of bubble formation; Susceptibility to decompression illness; Time varying volume of bubbles

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GAS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIMB; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TIME;

EID: 0033637493     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.2000.279.6.r2317     Document Type: Article

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