Scuba diving: What you and your patients need to know

Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 711-721

  McMullin, Ann Marie ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DECONGESTIVE AGENT; NITROGEN; OXYGEN;

AIR EMBOLISM; ANAMNESIS; ARTERIAL GAS; BAROTRAUMA; BED REST; CLINICAL FEATURE; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; EYE INJURY; FACE PAIN; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; INFORMED CONSENT; INNER EAR DISEASE; LUNG BAROTRAUMA; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE EAR DISEASE; OTITIS MEDIA; PARANASAL SINUS DISEASE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPORT INJURY; STOMACH INJURY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TOOTH INJURY;

BAROTRAUMA; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; EAR; EMBOLISM, AIR; FAMILY PRACTICE; HUMANS; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION;

EID: 33747209028     PISSN: 08911150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3949/ccjm.73.8.711     Document Type: Review

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