Short oxygen prebreathe periods reduce or prevent severe decompression sickness in a 70-kg swine saturation model

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1459-1463

  Mahon, R T ^a,b   Dainer, H M ^a,b   Gibellato, M G ^a   Soutiere, S E ^a,c  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c Navy Experimental Diving Unit   (United States)

Author keywords

Disabled submarine; Nonrecompressive therapy; Prebreathe; Preoxygenation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; EXPERIMENTAL PIG; HYPERBARISM; MALE; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN PREBREATHING; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGEN THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AIR QUALITY CONTROL; ANIMAL; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BODY WEIGHT; DECOMPRESSION; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKIN; SURVIVAL; SWINE;

OXYGEN;

AIR PRESSURE; ANIMALS; ATMOSPHERE EXPOSURE CHAMBERS; BODY WEIGHT; DECOMPRESSION; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; OXYGEN; OXYGEN INHALATION THERAPY; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; SKIN; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SWINE;

EID: 66149113643     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: 15221601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.91058.2008     Document Type: Article

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