Exercise effects during diving and decompression on postdive venous gas emboli

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 489-495

  Jankowski, Louis W ^a   Tikuisis, Peter ^b   Nishi, Ronald Y ^b  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bubbles; DCS; Decompression; Diving; Doppler; Physical activity; Risk

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM EXERCISE; ARTICLE; DECOMPRESSION; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMBOLISM; EXERCISE; GAS EMBOLISM; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEG EXERCISE; MALE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; RISK; SUBCLAVIAN VEIN;

ADULT; DIVING; EMBOLISM, AIR; EXERCISE; HUMANS; MALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS;

EID: 2442647810     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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