A trial to determine the risk of decompression sickness after a 40 feet of sea water for 200 minute no-stop air dive

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 102-108

  Ball, Robert ^a,b   Parker, Erich C ^a  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR BIOLOGICS EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical trial; Decompression sickness; Probabilistic modeling; Risk estimation

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; NAVY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PROBABILITY;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NAVAL MEDICINE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SEAWATER; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033979595     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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