Recompression and adjunctive therapy for decompression illness

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn , Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Bennett, Michael H ^a   Lehm, J P ^b   Mitchell, S J ^b   Wasiak, J ^b  

^a PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Anti inflammatory agents, non steroidal therapeutic use ; Decompression sickness *therapy ; Humans; Hyperbaric oxygenation *methods ; Piroxicam analogs derivatives; therapeutic use ; Randomized controlled trials as topic

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CORTICOSTEROID; HELIOX; LIDOCAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OXYGEN; TENOXICAM;

CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; REVIEW; THERAPY EFFECT;

EID: 39149109552     PISSN: 1469493X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD005277.pub2     Document Type: Review

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