The effect of pre-dive exercise timing, intensity and mode on post-decompression venous gas emboli

Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 183-188

  Jurd, Karen M ^a   Thacker, Julian C ^a   Seddon, Fiona M ^a   Gennser, Mikael ^b   Loveman, Geoffrey A M ^a  

^a QINETIQ   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bubbles; Decompression illness; Diving; Doppler; Exercise

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSION; DIVING; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; EXERCISE; GAS EMBOLISM; HEART RATE; HUMAN; JOGGING; JUMPING; MALE; PRESSURE CHAMBER; VEIN EMBOLISM; VENOUS GAS EMBOLI; AIR EMBOLISM; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; VEIN;

DECOMPRESSION; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIVING; EMBOLISM, AIR; HUMANS; VEINS;

EID: 82855178112     PISSN: 18333516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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