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Clinical Study Danish medical journal 2016

Effect of metabolic gases and water vapor, perfluorocarbon emulsions, and nitric oxide on tissue bubbles during decompression sickness.

Randsøe T — Danish medical journal, 2016

Tier 2, Indexed

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Summary

What Researchers Did

Researchers used anesthetized rats to evaluate how metabolic gases and water vapor contribute to bubble volume, clarify oxygen and nitrogen solubility with perfluorocarbon emulsions, and test nitric oxide donors' effects on tissue bubbles and spinal evoked potentials during decompression sickness.

What They Found

This abstract details the study's aims to evaluate metabolic gas and water vapor contributions to bubble volume, clarify oxygen and nitrogen solubility with perfluorocarbon emulsions, and test nitric oxide donors' effects on tissue bubbles and spinal evoked potentials during decompression sickness. However, the abstract does not present any specific findings or numerical results from the study.

Canadian Relevance

This study has no direct Canadian connection.

Study Limitations

A key limitation is that this study was conducted on anesthetized rats, meaning its findings may not directly translate to human physiology or clinical practice.

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Study Details

Study Type Clinical Study
Category Decompression Sickness
Source Pubmed
PubMed ID 27127019
Year Published 2016
Journal Danish medical journal
MeSH Terms Adipose Tissue; Animals; Decompression; Decompression Sickness; Embolism, Air; Fluorocarbons; Humans; Nitric Oxide; Nitric Oxide Donors; Oxygen; Rats; Steam

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