The relationship between venous gas bubbles and adverse effects of decompression after air dives

Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 99-105

  Eftedal, O S ^a   Lydersen, S ^a   Brubakk, A O ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; ARTICLE; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; NOMENCLATURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AIR; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; HUMANS; MALE; ODDS RATIO; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 34250374768     PISSN: 10662936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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