Supplemental oxygen and hyperbaric treatment at high altitude: Cardiac and respiratory response

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 613-617

  Rodway, George W ^a   Windsor, Jeremy S ^b   Hart, Nigel D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Altitude sickness; Hyperbaric therapy; Hypoxia; Mountaineering; Supplemental oxygen

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; AWARENESS; BREATHING RATE; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; LUNG MINUTE VOLUME; MALE; MOUNTAINEERING; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN SATURATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TIDAL VOLUME; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; HUMANS; HYPERBARIC OXYGENATION; MALE; MOUNTAINEERING; OXYGEN; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS;

EID: 34249898943     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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