Decompression sickness rates for chamber personnel: Case series from one facility

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 570-573

  Brandt, Megan S ^b   Morrison, Thomas O ^c   Butler, William P ^a  

^a PSC 80   (Japan)

^b Human Performance Training Flight   (Italy)

^c 19th Aerospace Medicine Squadron   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster; DCS; Decompression sickness; Dose response; Epidemic; Exposures per month; Inside observer; IO

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; REACTION TIME; SKIN MANIFESTATION;

ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 66949180828     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3357/ASEM.2438.2009     Document Type: Article

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