Oxygen breathing accelerates decompression from saturation at 40 msw in 70-kg swine

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 81, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 639-645

  Petersen, Kyle ^a   Soutiere, Shawn E ^b   Tucker, Kathryn E ^c   Dainer, Hugh M ^d   Mahon, Richard T ^a  

^a NMRC   (United States)

^b Naval Experimental Diving Unit   (United States)

^c University of Iowa   (United States)

^d WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Decompression illness; Decompression sickness; Disabled submarine; Isobaric oxygenation; Staged decompression

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DECOMPRESSION; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SWINE;

ANIMALS; DECOMPRESSION; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; MALE; OXYGEN; SWINE;

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE;

EID: 77954135151     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3357/ASEM.2681.2010     Document Type: Article

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