The incidence of venous gas emboli in recreational diving

Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 247-259

  Dunford, R G ^a,b   Vann, R D ^b   Gerth, W A ^b,c   Pieper, C F ^b,d   Huggins, K ^e   Wacholtz, C ^b   Bennett, P B ^b  

^a VIRGINIA MASON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Navy Experimental Diving Unit   (United States)

^d Division of Biostatistics

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Age; Dive computers; Doppler bubble detection; Multi day diving; Multi level diving; Probabilistic modeling; Repetitive diving; Sex; Venous gas emboli

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AIR EMBOLISM; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING; NON-PROGRAMMATIC; PROBABILITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; EMBOLISM, AIR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PROBABILITY; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0037942614     PISSN: 10662936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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