Altitude decompression sickness symptom resolution during descent to ground level

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 496-499

  Muehlberger, Patrick M ^a,e   Pilmanis, Andrew A ^c   Webb, James T ^d   Olson, James E ^b  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d WYLE LABORATORIES   (United States)

^e PSC 78 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Altitude; DCS; Decompression sickness; Hypobaric; Resolution; Treatment

Indexed keywords

AIR FORCE; ALTITUDE DISEASE; DATA BASE; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; FLIGHT; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; HYPERBARISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OXYGEN THERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

NASA DISCIPLINE ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; NON-NASA CENTER;

AEROSPACE MEDICINE; ALTITUDE; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; HUMANS; HYPERBARIC OXYGENATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 2442671692     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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