First aid normobaric oxygen for the treatment of recreational diving injuries

Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 43-49

  Longphre, J M ^a   Denoble, P J ^b   Moon, R E ^a,b   Vann, R D ^a,b   Freiberger, J J ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Divers Alert Network   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; EVALUATION; FACTUAL DATABASE; FIRST AID; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; OXYGEN THERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; FIRST AID; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; ODDS RATIO; OXYGEN INHALATION THERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34247165142     PISSN: 10662936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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