Establishing predictive indicators for the status of loaded soft tissues

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 2231-2237

  Knight, Sarah L ^a   Taylor, Richard P ^b   Polliack, Adrian A ^b   Bader, Dan L ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Applied pressures; Ischemia; Pressure sores; Soft tissue status; Sweat lactate; Sweat urea; Transcutaneous gas tensions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DECUBITUS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; TRANSCUTANEOUS CARBON DIOXIDE MONITORING; TRANSCUTANEOUS OXYGEN MONITORING; WEIGHT BEARING;

EID: 0034999796     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jappl.2001.90.6.2231     Document Type: Article

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