Effect of heliox, oxygen and air breathing on helium bubbles after heliox diving

Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 107-122

  Hyldegaard, O ^a   Jensen, T ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELIOX; HELIUM; NITROGEN; OXYGEN;

AIR; AIR EMBOLISM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; DECOMPRESSION; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; RAT; TIME; VASCULARIZATION; WISTAR RAT;

AIR; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; DECOMPRESSION; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; EMBOLISM, AIR; FEMALE; HELIUM; INTRA-ABDOMINAL FAT; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; PARTIAL PRESSURE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34250330688     PISSN: 10662936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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