Balance testing and Doppler monitoring during hyperbaric exposure

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 320-325

  Nordahl, Stein H G ^a   Aasen, Torbjørn ^a   Risberg, Jan ^b,c   Molvær, Otto I ^b,c  

^a HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b Haakonsvern Naval Base   (Norway)

^c Norwegian Underwater Technol Centre   (Norway)

Author keywords

Dive; Gas emboli; Human; Postural control; Saturation; Stabilometry

Indexed keywords

HELIOX; SEA WATER;

ADULT; AIR; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY POSTURE; CALORIC VESTIBULAR TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECOMPRESSION; DIVER; DIVING; DOPPLER FLOWMETER; ELECTRONYSTAGMOGRAPHY; GAS EMBOLISM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERBARISM; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN SATURATION; STANDING; TASK PERFORMANCE; ULTRASOUND; VESTIBULOOCULAR REFLEX;

ADULT; ANOXIA; CALORIC TESTS; DIVING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ELECTRONS; EMBOLISM, AIR; HELIUM; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; OXYGEN; REFLEX, VESTIBULO-OCULAR;

EID: 0037382886     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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