Field trials of no-decompression stop limits for diving at 3500 m

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 228-235

  Egi, Salih M ^a   Gürmen, Nihat M ^b   Aydin, Salih ^c  

^a BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b University of South Florida   (United States)

^c ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Acute mountain sickness; Bubbles; Decompression; Decompression sickness; Decompression tables; Doppler ultrasound; Hypoxia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSION; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; FORCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LAKE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN;

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 0037338487     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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