altitude sickness
altitude sickness see decompression sickness .
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Even astronauts are susceptible to "bends". (Decompression Sickness).(medical research)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine); 10/1/2002; 700+ words
; ...known as gas bubble disease or decompression sickness, occurs when divers, aviators...elevates astronauts' risk of decompression sickness, Moon indicates...Although we know of no cases of decompression sickness in space, the number...
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Heart defect may lie behind 'bends.' (decompression sickness)
Magazine article from: Science News; 3/25/1989; 653 words
; ...may explain many cases of decompression sickness, or the "bends," in adult...changes in the U.S. Navy's decompression tables, which spell out the...certification for deep-water dives. Decompression sickness results when tiny...
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Ask professor Ossolotch.(Discoveries)(decompression sickness)
Magazine article from: Current Science, a Weekly Reader publication; 3/18/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...bends is the common term for decompression sickness, The condition happens to...bone death that results from decompression sickness. Their interest...The whales showed signs of decompression sickness. --Edgar T. Ossolotch
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Journal Article Reviews Research Using Oxycyte[R] and PFCs in TBI and Decompression Sickness.
Newspaper article from: Blood Weekly; 2/12/2009; 700+ words
; ...Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and decompression sickness. Oxycyte is the Company...arterial and venous emboli/decompression sickness).o It was written...our compound to be used for decompression sickness. All in all, this...
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Decompression sickness and dive tables.(HYPERBARIC MEDICINE)
Magazine article from: FOCUS: Journal for Respiratory Care & Sleep Medicine; 3/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...department for the treatment of decompression sickness (DCS), they may have their...allows the diver to plan no-decompression dives, which are dives not...gassing. These stops are called decompression stops and can be found on...
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Hyperbaric files: decompression sickness.(HYPERBARIC MEDICINE)
Magazine article from: FOCUS: Journal for Respiratory Care & Sleep Medicine; 6/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...divers our first thought was decompression sickness (DCS). DCS, also called...more. If Jack did have the decompression sickness (DCS) he would...term you may hear is DCI or decompression illness and includes both...
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Analysis: New research suggests that whales can suffer from decompression sickness
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered; 12/23/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...that whales can suffer from decompression sickness Host: MELISSA BLOCK, ROBERT...their apparent immunity to decompression sickness has long puzzled...potentially create severe decompression problems. JOYCE: Scientists...
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Navy Sonar May Give Whales the 'Bends'; Condition Similar to Decompression Sickness Found in Mammals Beached on Canary Islands
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 10/9/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...found a condition similar to decompression sickness in 10 of 14 dead animals...a marine mammal version of decompression sickness was "the most likely...they wouldn't succumb to decompression." The Canary Island strandings...
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Patents: Canadian Inventor Develops Decompression Sickness Risk Prediction System
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 2/10/2009; 395 words
; ...has developed a device for predicting risk of decompression sickness. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No...calculated according to the model. A risk of decompression sickness to the person resulting from the exposure can...
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Descent Into Perilous Quagmire of TWA Disaster; Divers Risked Decompression Sickness in Emotional Vortex of Jetliner Salvage Mission
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 11/17/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...their ascents so that they would not succumb to decompression sickness, although some got sick anyway. Others suffered...constantly subjected themselves to the bends {decompression sickness}, dove in deep, dark water and dealt with...
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decompression sickness
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
decompression sickness may be defined as the illness...thought to be synonymous with acute decompression sickness, until bubbles were detected...another aspect in the causation of decompression sickness is the response of the individual...
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Decompression Sickness
Book article from: U*X*L Complete Health Resource
DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS DEFINITION Decompression sickness...than it does at the surface. Decompression sickness occurs when a person returns to...attacks, and death. DIAGNOSIS Decompression sickness is usually first diagnosed by...
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decompression
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
decompression ˌdēkəm...particular: a. reduction in air pressure: decompression of the aircraft cabin. b. a gradual reduction...pressure while diving in order to prevent decompression sickness.
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altitude sickness
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
altitude sickness see decompression sickness .
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Recompression Treatment
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 3rd ed.
...effects of gas embolism and decompression sickness (sometimes called the bends...ventilator. When used to treat decompression sickness or gas embolism...trauma of gas embolism and decompression sickness begins to resolve...
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