Pulmonary function testing and extreme environments

Clinics in Chest Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 485-507

  Dillard, Thomas A ^a   Khosla, Seema ^a   Ewald Jr , Frank W ^b   Asif Kaleem, M ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; ASTHMA; AVIATION; BAROTRAUMA; BREATHING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIVING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; EXPOSURE; FITNESS; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; HYPERBARISM; HYPERTENSION; HYPOBARISM; HYPOXIA; INHALATION TEST; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; OXYGEN SATURATION; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE OXIMETRY; RESPIRATORY DRIVE; REVIEW; SLEEP DISORDER; SMOKING; SPACE; SWIMMING; ADAPTATION; AIRCRAFT; ATMOSPHERE; BIOMECHANICS; ENVIRONMENT; LEISURE; METHODOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; RADIATION; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; TRAVEL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AIRCRAFT; ALTITUDE; ATMOSPHERE; BIOMECHANICS; DIVING; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; LEISURE ACTIVITIES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRESSURE; RADIATION; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; RESPIRATORY PHYSIOLOGY; TRAVEL;

EID: 27744568010     PISSN: 02725231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccm.2005.05.006     Document Type: Review

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