The effect of breathing hyperoxic gas during simulated submarine escape on venous gas emboli and decompression illness

Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 163-174

  Blogg, S L ^a   Gennser, M ^b   Loveman, G A M ^a   Seddon, F M ^a   Thacker, J C ^a   White, M G ^a  

^a Centre for Human Sciences   (United Kingdom)

^b SWEDISH DEFENCE RESEARCH AGENCY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Decompression illness; Hyperoxia; Oxygen toxicity; Saturation; Submarine escape; Venous gas emboli

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

AIR; AIR EMBOLISM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BAROTRAUMA; DECOMPRESSION; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; FEMALE; GOAT; HIGH PRESSURE NEUROLOGICAL SYNDROME; MALE; MILITARY MEDICINE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; TIME;

AIR; ANIMALS; BAROTRAUMA; DECOMPRESSION; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; EMBOLISM, AIR; FEMALE; GOATS; HIGH PRESSURE NEUROLOGICAL SYNDROME; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; OXYGEN; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SUBMARINE MEDICINE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0642278616     PISSN: 10662936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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