Experimental use of a transportable hyperbaric chamber durable for 15 psi at 3700 meters above sea level

Wilderness and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 21-24

  Saito, Shigeru ^a   Aso, Chizu ^a   Kanai, Masaki ^a   Takazawa, Tomonori ^a   Shiga, Tatsuya ^a   Shimada, Hitoshi ^b  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Public Tomioka General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

High altitude physiology; Hyperbaric oxygen; Pulmonary edema

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; HYPERBARISM; LUNG EDEMA; MALE; OXYGEN THERAPY;

EID: 0034019751     PISSN: 10806032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1580/1080-6032(2000)011[0021:EUOATH]2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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