Enhancement of preoxygenation for decompression sickness protection: Effect of exercise duration

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1161-1166

  Webb, James T ^a,c   Pilmanis, Andrew A ^a   Fischer, Michele D ^a   Kannan, Nandini ^b  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c WYLE LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Altitude; DCS; Decompression sickness; Denitrogenation; Emboli; Exercise; Prebreathe; Preoxygenation; VGE

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DYNAMIC EXERCISE; FEMALE; GAS EMBOLISM; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; INCIDENCE; MALE; MONITORING; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGENATION; PROTECTION; REST; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VEIN DISEASE;

NASA DISCIPLINE ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; NON-NASA CENTER;

ADULT; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OXYGEN INHALATION THERAPY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 18744373316     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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