Resolution and severity in decompression illness

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 80, Issue 5 PART 1, 2009, Pages 466-471

  Vann, Richard D ^a   Denoble, Petar J ^b   Howle, Laurens E ^b   Weber, Paul W ^b   Freiberger, John J ^b   Pieper, Carl F ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

ACE; Arterial gas embolism; DCI; DCS; Decompression illness; Decompression sickness; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RATING SCALE; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; SPACE; SURVIVAL RATE;

DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 66949130770     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3357/ASEM.2471.2009     Document Type: Review

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