Intravenous perfluorocarbon after onset of decompression sickness decreases mortality in 20-kg swine

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 555-559

  Mahon, Richard T ^a   Watanabe, Tomas T ^a   Wilson, Madison C ^a   Auker, Charles R ^a   Temple, Diana ^a  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Decompression illness; Hyperbarics; Oxygen; Pertluorocarbon emulsions

Indexed keywords

FLUOROCARBON;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; MALE; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SWINE; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; FLUOROCARBONS; MALE; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SWINE; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE;

EID: 77952822487     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3357/ASEM.2745.2010     Document Type: Article

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