Case history of serious altitude decompression sickness following rapid rate of ascent

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 675-678

  Gibbons, John A ^a   Ramsey, Carol S ^a   Wright, James K ^b   Pilmanis, Andrew A ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Air Force Materiel Command   (United States)

Author keywords

Altitude; CNS; DCS; Decompression sickness; Denitrogenation; Emboli; Flight medicine; Hyperbaric oxygen treatment; Prebreathe; Preoxygenation; Respiratory; VGE

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DISORIENTATION; FLIGHT; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; HYPOBARISM; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OXYGENATION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORAX PAIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; ALTITUDE DISEASE; TIME FACTOR;

AEROSPACE MEDICINE; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; HUMANS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0038104952     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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