Extreme survival: A serious technical diving accident

South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 23-27

  Trytko, Barbara ^a   Mitchell, Simon ^b  

^a PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b Royal New Zealand Navy Hospital   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Case reports; Decompression illness; Hypercapnia; Rebreathers closed circuit; Technical diving

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; OXYGEN; SEA WATER; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ACCIDENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; BLADDER CATHETERIZATION; BREATHING APPARATUS; CASE REPORT; COLLOID; CONFUSION; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DECOMPRESSION; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DIVER; DIVING; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; HYPERCAPNIA; INTENSIVE CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; RESUSCITATION; SURVIVAL; URINE RETENTION;

EID: 17144392895     PISSN: 08131988     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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