Delayed treatment of decompression sickness with short, no-air-break tables: Review of 140 cases

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 77, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1003-1008

  Cianci, Paul ^a   Slade Jr , John B ^a  

^a Doctors Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Decompression sickness; Short oxygen treatment tables

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONVALESCENCE; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIVER; DIVING; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MENTAL DISEASE; NAVY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROBABILITY; REVIEW; SYMPTOM; THERAPY DELAY; UNITED STATES;

DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERBARIC OXYGENATION; MALE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33750000569     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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