Prophylactic high dose methylprednisolone fails to treat severe decompression sickness in swine

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 21-28

  Dromsky, David M ^a   Weathersby, Paul K ^a   Fahlman, Andreas ^a  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

DCS; Diving; Methylprednisolone; Saturation diving; Steroids; Swine

Indexed keywords

METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSION; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG MEGADOSE; HYPERBARISM; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PROPHYLAXIS; RANDOMIZATION; SWINE; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HYPERBARIC OXYGENATION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SWINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALIA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0037223799     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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