Consensus factors used by experts in the diagnosis of decompression illness

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 75, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1023-1028

  Freiberger, John J ^a,b   Lyman, Sean J ^b   Denoble, Petar J ^a   Pieper, Carl F ^b   Vann, Richard D ^a,b  

^a Clinical Research Department   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Arterial gas emboli; Decompression sickness; Diving; Hyperbaric oxygen; Vignette simulation

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL GAS; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; GAS EMBOLISM; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; SEIZURE; TIME;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIVING; HUMANS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATIENT SIMULATION; REFERENCE VALUES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 10044292928     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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