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  • Title: [Decompression sickness-one of the vital problems of aerospace medicine].
    Author: Katuntsev VP.
    Journal: Aviakosm Ekolog Med; 1998; 32(6):11-20. PubMed ID: 9934437.
    Abstract:
    The author reviews the literature on decompression sickness (DCS) constituting one of the major problems of aerospace medicine. He speculates on the terms describing this health condition and offers the retrospective of hypothesised causes for DCS development. The paper outlines main DCS symptoms and reports statistics on the DCS incidence rate in flying personnel when piloting aircraft and training in altitude chambers, and in volunteered test-subjects during physiological experiments with simulated ascents in order to mimic the extravehicular activities of cosmonauts and to test the altitude gear. Underlined is the value of publications by many Russian and foreign investigators who contributed significantly to development of the scientific and applied aspects of this problem. The currently available and theoretically possible countermeasures against DCS in cosmonauts during EVA are considered.
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