Case report: Treatment of mild traumatic brain injury with hyperbaric oxygen

Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 391-399

  Wright, Colonel James K ^a   Zant, Eddie ^b   Groom, Kevin ^c   Schlegel, Robert E ^d   Gilliland, Kirby ^d  

^a USAF   (United States)

^b Hyperbaric Medicine Inc   (United States)

^c Anchor Clinic   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLAST INJURY; BRAIN CONCUSSION; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC HEADACHE; SLEEP DISORDER; SOLDIER;

BLAST INJURIES; BRAIN CONCUSSION; BRAIN INJURIES; COGNITION DISORDERS; HUMANS; HYPERBARIC OXYGENATION; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; POST-TRAUMATIC HEADACHE; SLEEP DISORDERS, INTRINSIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 75649092622     PISSN: 10662936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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