The effect of sudden depressurization on pilots at cruising altitude

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 765, Issue , 2013, Pages 177-183

  Muehlemann, Thomas ^a   Holper, Lisa ^a   Wenzel, Juergen ^b   Wittkowski, Martin ^b   Wolf, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Depressurization; High altitude; Near infrared spectroscopy; Pilot; Tissue oxygen saturation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIRPLANE PILOT; ALTITUDE; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; BODY HEIGHT; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN OXYGEN SATURATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN MASK; OXYGEN SATURATION; PRESSURE; PRESSURE CHAMBER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE OXIMETRY; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIMULATION; SUDDEN DEPRESSURIZATION; BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; BREATHING; DEPRESSURIZATION; PRESSURE AND TENSION;

OXYGEN;

EID: 84867514316     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-4989-8_25     Document Type: Conference Paper

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