Normobaric hypoxia inhalation test vs. response to airline flight in healthy passengers

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 77, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1143-1147

  Kelly, Paul T ^a   Swanney, Maureen P ^a   Frampton, Chris ^b   Seccombe, Leigh M ^c   Peters, Matthew J ^c   Beckert, Lutz E ^a  

^a CHRISTCHURCH HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c Department of Thoracic Medicine   (Australia)

Author keywords

Air travel; Normobaric hypoxia inhalation test; Oxygenation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRCRAFT; ALTITUDE; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; AVIATION; DEOXYGENATION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOXIA; INHALATION TEST; LUNG FUNCTION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NORMOBARIC HYPOXIA INHALATION TEST; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGEN TENSION; OXYGENATION; PULSE OXIMETRY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPACE FLIGHT; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; ALTITUDE; ANOXIA; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXIMETRY; OXYGEN; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; TRAVEL;

EID: 33750432875     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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