Decompression illness diagnosis and decompression study design

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 79, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 797-798

  Vann, Richard D ^a,b   Moon, Richard E ^a   Freiberger, John J ^a   Denoble, Petar J ^a   Dear, Guy L ^a   Stolp, Bret W ^a   Massey, E Wayne ^a  

^a Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Environmental Physiology   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL FEATURE; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIVING; GAS EMBOLISM; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NOTE; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CERTIFICATION; DATA COLLECTION; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; DIVING; GERMANY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 48649091109     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3357/ASEM.2316.2008     Document Type: Note

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