The effect of simulated weightlessness on hypobaric decompression sickness

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 773-778

  Balldin, Ulf I ^a   Pilmanis, Andrew A ^a   Webb, James T ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decompression sickness; Hypobaric exposure; Simulated weightlessness; Space environment; Venous gas emboli

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; GAS EMBOLISM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOBARISM; INCIDENCE; LEG MOVEMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGENATION; PRESSURE; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; SIMULATION; SPACE; SPACE FLIGHT; SUPINE POSITION; WEIGHTLESSNESS; ADOLESCENT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; ARM; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EXERCISE TEST; LEG; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NASA DISCIPLINE ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; NON-NASA CENTER; OXYGEN THERAPY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME; WEIGHT BEARING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; ARM; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; EXERCISE TEST; EXTRAVEHICULAR ACTIVITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MOVEMENT; OXYGEN INHALATION THERAPY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUPINE POSITION; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; TIME FACTORS; WEIGHT-BEARING; WEIGHTLESSNESS SIMULATION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

NASA DISCIPLINE ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; NON-NASA CENTER;

EID: 0035990560     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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