The relative risk of decompression sickness during and after air travel following diving

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 980-984

  Freiberger, John Jacob ^a   Denoble, P J ^a   Pieper, C F ^a   Uguccioni, D M ^a   Pollock, N W ^a   Vann, R D ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Accidents; Decompression sickness; Flying; Scuba diving

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; AVIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DIVING; FEMALE; FLYING; GENDER; HEIGHT; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RECREATION; RISK FACTOR; WEIGHT;

ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; RISK;

EID: 0036788683     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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