Risk factors for venous gas emboli after decompression from prolonged hyperbaric exposures

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 78, Issue 5 I, 2007, Pages 493-499

  Cameron, Bruce A ^b,d   Olstad, Christopher S ^c   Clark, James M ^b   Gelfand, Robert ^b   Ochroch, E Andrew ^a   Eckenhoff, Roderic G ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c Marine Resources Development Foundation   (United States)

^d BAMFIELD MARINE SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Diving; Hyperbaric

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSION; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; FEMALE; GAS EMBOLISM; HUMAN; HYPERBARISM; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; STEADY STATE; VEIN EMBOLISM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; EMBOLISM, AIR; FEMALE; GASES; HUMANS; HYPERBARIC OXYGENATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34248232586     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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