A safe treatment concept for divers with acute inner ear disorders

Laryngoscope

Volumn 114, Issue 11 I, 2004, Pages 2048-2050

  Klingmann, Christoph ^a   Benton, Peter ^b   Schellinger, Peter ^a   Knauth, Michael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF NAVAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAROTRAUMA; CLINICAL FEATURE; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIVER; HEARING; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; INNER EAR; INNER EAR BAROTRAUMA; INNER EAR DECOMPRESSION ILLNESS; INNER EAR DISEASE; MIDDLE EAR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; SPORT; STAPEDECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; BAROTRAUMA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIVING; EAR DISEASES; EAR, INNER; HUMANS;

EID: 9144243745     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlg.0000147947.43547.e9     Document Type: Article

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