Escape from a disabled submarine: Decompression sickness risk estimation

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 109-114

  Parker, Erich C ^a   Ball, Robert ^a   Tibbles, Patrick M ^a   Weathersby, Paul K ^a   Mannix, S L ^a,b  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Decompression illness; Decompression sickness; Probabilistic modeling; Risk assessment; Submarine escape; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MILITARY MEDICINE; OXYGEN BREATHING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE;

ACCIDENTS; CALIBRATION; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINEAR MODELS; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PRESSURE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESCUE WORK; RISK FACTORS; SUBMARINE MEDICINE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033969124     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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