The Abacus Project: Establishing the risk of recreational scuba death and decompression illness

South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 124-128

  Ladd, Gary ^a   Stepan, Victor ^a   Stevens, Linda ^a  

^a NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Deaths; Decompression illness; Epidemiology; Recreational diving; Scuba

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CANADA; CORONER; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; FATALITY; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; RELIABILITY; TANK;

EID: 0036710541     PISSN: 08131988     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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