The effect of staged decompression while breathing 100% oxygen on altitude decompression sickness

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 692-698

  Webb, James T ^a,c   Pilmanis, Andrew A ^a   Kannan, Nandini ^b   Olson, Robert M ^c  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c University of Texas ^*

Author keywords

Altitude; DCS; Decompression sickness; Denitrogenation; Emboli; Prebreathe; Preoxygenation; VGE

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; OXYGEN;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; GAS EMBOLISM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; OXYGENATION; PROTECTION;

ALTITUDE SICKNESS; DECOMPRESSION; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; EXTRAVEHICULAR ACTIVITY; HUMANS; MALE; OXYGEN INHALATION THERAPY; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033938157     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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