Incidence of decompression sickness in hypoxia training with and without 30-min O2 prebreathe

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 56-61

  Rice, G Merrill ^a   Vacchiano, Charles A ^a   Moore Jr , Jeffrey L ^a   Anderson, David W ^b  

^a Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory   (United States)

^b Naval Aerospace Medicine Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Altitude exposure; Decompression sickness; Preoxygenation

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; FISHER EXACT TEST; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OXYGEN BREATHING; SIMULATION; STUDENT; TRAINING;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; ALTITUDE; ANOXIA; ATMOSPHERE EXPOSURE CHAMBERS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MILITARY MEDICINE; OXYGEN INHALATION THERAPY;

MARTES PENNANTI;

EID: 0037228224     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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