Partial pressure of nitrogen in breathing mixtures and risk of altitude decompression sickness

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 76, Issue 7 I, 2005, Pages 635-641

  Pilmanis, Andrew A ^a   Webb, James T ^b   Balldin, Ulf I ^b  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b WYLE LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Altitude; Argon; Breathing gas; Decompression sickness; Nitrogen; On board oxygen generating systems; Venous gas emboli

Indexed keywords

ARGON; INERT GAS; NITROGEN; OXYGEN;

ADULT; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; BREATHING; BREATHING APPARATUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSION; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; EXERCISE; EXPOSURE; GAS MIXER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGENATION; PRESSURE;

AEROSPACE MEDICINE; ALTITUDE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DECOMPRESSION; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; HUMANS; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; PARTIAL PRESSURE; RESPIRATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 21644487438     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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