Central nervous system decompression sickness and venous gas emboli in hypobaric conditions

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 75, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 969-972

  Balldin, Ulf I ^b   Pilmanis, Andrew A ^a   Webb, James T ^b  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b WYLE LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Altitude; CNS symptoms; Decompression sickness; HBO; Venous gas emboli

Indexed keywords

AIR EMBOLISM; ARTICLE; BREATHING; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; DATA BASE; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; HYPOBARISM; VEIN;

NASA DISCIPLINE ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; NON-NASA CENTER;

ALTITUDE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; DATABASES; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; EMBOLISM, AIR; HUMANS; OXYGEN INHALATION THERAPY; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 7244224796     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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