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Document ID (ISN)37626
CIS number 82-784
ISSN - Serial title 0095-6562 - Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine
Year 1981
Convention or series no.
Author(s) Greenstein A., Sherman D., Melamed Y.
Title Chokes - favourable response to delayed recompression therapy: A case report
Bibliographic information Sep. 1981, Vol.52, No.9, p.559-560. 20 ref.
Abstract A case of respiratory chokes syndrome after diving which persisted untreated for 72h and responded to recompression is described. The possible physiological mechanisms and the late response to therapy are discussed.
Descriptors (primary) chokes; recompression; diving
Descriptors (secondary) case study
Document type D - Periodical articles
Subject(s) Occupational pathology
Broad subject area(s)
Browse category(ies) Hyperbaric pressure