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Problems of prevention and treatment of decompression sickness in divers

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The accident prevention, health preservation and maintenance of efficiency in divers exposed to decompression and the risk of decompression sickness onset is the fundamental problem of diving physiology and medicine. The authors examined the nature of decompression sickness; the biophysical basis for modeling the processes provoked its initiation, including the main parameters liable to computation and compared the different modes of deand recompression in relation to their effectiveness under certain initial conditions.

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  1. RAS Institute of Medical and Biologocal Problems, Moscow, Russia

    Viktor Petrovich Nikolaev & Anatolii Ivanovich Grigoriev

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Original Russian Text © V.P. Nikolaev, A.I. Grigoriev, 2015, published in Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2015, Vol. 85, No. 11, pp. 1005–1010.

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Nikolaev, V.P., Grigoriev, A.I. Problems of prevention and treatment of decompression sickness in divers. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 85, 504–509 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331615060040

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