Gradient Compression Garments as a Countermeasure to Post-Spaceflight Orthostatic Intolerance

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 81, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 883-887

  Stenger, Michael B ^a   Brown, Angela K ^a   Lee, Stuart M C ^a   Locke, James P ^a   Platts, Steven H ^a  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Astronauts; Orthostatic hypotension; Presyncope; Space shuttle; Tilt test

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; INTERMITTENT PNEUMATIC COMPRESSION DEVICE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOSTATIC INTOLERANCE; PILOT STUDY; SPACE FLIGHT;

HUMANS; INTERMITTENT PNEUMATIC COMPRESSION DEVICES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOSTATIC INTOLERANCE; PILOT PROJECTS; SPACE FLIGHT;

EID: 77956372197     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3357/ASEM.2781.2010     Document Type: Article

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