The effectiveness of ground level oxygen treatment for altitude decompression sickness in human research subjects

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 115-118

  Krause, Kevin M ^b   Pilmanis, Andrew A ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Decompression sickness; Oxygen; Treatment

Indexed keywords

AIR FORCE; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; GAS EMBOLISM; GROUND LEVEL OXYGEN THERAPY; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OXYGEN THERAPY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

AEROSPACE MEDICINE; ALGORITHMS; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DECISION TREES; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; OXYGEN INHALATION THERAPY; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033964007     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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