Department of Defense trials for hyperbaric oxygen and TBI: Issues of study design and questionable Conclusions

Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 469-470

  Harch, Paul G ^a,b  

^a Division of Emergency Medicine   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; POSTCONCUSSION SYNDROME; SOLDIER;

HUMANS; HYPERBARIC OXYGENATION; MILITARY PERSONNEL; POST-CONCUSSION SYNDROME;

EID: 84884512623     PISSN: 10662936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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