Observation of increased venous gas emboli after wet dives compared to dry dives

Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 124-128

  Møllerløkken, Andreas ^a   Breskovic, Toni ^b   Palada, Ivan ^b   Valic, Zoran ^b   Dujic, Zeljko ^b   Brubakk, Alf O ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bubbles; Decompression sickness; Diving research; Diving tables

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY EMBOLISM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSION; DIVER; DIVING; GAS EMBOLISM; HUMAN; HYPERBARISM; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PULMONARY ARTERY; AIR EMBOLISM; AIR QUALITY CONTROL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART VENTRICLE; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REFERENCE VALUE; STANDARD; VEIN;

ADULT; ATMOSPHERE EXPOSURE CHAMBERS; DECOMPRESSION; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; EMBOLISM, AIR; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; HYPERBARIC OXYGENATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; REFERENCE VALUES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VEINS;

EID: 80155146585     PISSN: 18333516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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