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| Andrew A PilmanisSummaryAffiliation: Wilford Hall Medical Center Country: USA Publications
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Non-invasive measurement of pulmonary artery pressure in humans with simulated altitude-induced venous gas emboliDonald A Diesel
Air Force Research Laboratory, Human Effectiveness Directorate, Biodynamics and Protection Division, Brooks AFB, TX 78235-5104, USA
Aviat Space Environ Med 73:128-33. 2002..The risk of high PAP resulting in VGE cross-over is low during typical operational altitude exposures...- Altitude decompression sickness between 6858 and 9144 m following a 1-h prebreatheJames T Webb
Biosciences and Protection Division, Air Force Research Laboratory, Brooks City Base, TX, USA
Aviat Space Environ Med 76:34-8. 2005..However, such an altitude threshold when 1 h of oxygen prebreathe is used has not been well documented and was the primary purpose of this study... - The risk of altitude decompression sickness at 12,000 m and the effect of ascent rateAndrew A Pilmanis
Air Force Research Laboratory, 2485 Gillingham Drive, Brooks City Base, TX 78235 5105, USA
Aviat Space Environ Med 74:1052-7. 2003.... - The effect of repeated altitude exposures on the incidence of decompression sicknessAndrew A Pilmanis
AFRL HEPR, High Altitute Protection Research, Brooks AFB, TX 78535 5104, USA
Aviat Space Environ Med 73:525-31. 2002..Inconsistent and contradictory information exists regarding the risk of decompression sickness (DCS) during such hypobaric exposures... - Decompression sickness risk model: development and validation by 150 prospective hypobaric exposuresAndrew A Pilmanis
Brooks City Base Air Force Research Laboratory, AFRL HEPR, 2485 Gillingham Drive, Brooks City Base, TX 78235 5105, USA
Aviat Space Environ Med 75:749-59. 2004..A predictive DCS model was needed to reduce operational risk. To be operationally acceptable, such a theoretical model would need to be validated in the laboratory using human subjects... - Physiological hazards of flight at high altitudeAndrew A Pilmanis
High-Altitude Medicine at the US Air Force Research Laboratory, AFRL/HEPR, Brooks City Base, TX78235, USA
Lancet 362:s16-7. 2003 - Staged decompression to 3.5 psi using argon-oxygen and 100% oxygen breathing mixturesAndrew A Pilmanis
Biodynamics and Protection Division, Air Force Research Laboratory, Brooks City Base, San Antonio, TX 78235 5105, USA
Aviat Space Environ Med 74:1243-50. 2003..This study investigated breathing argon/oxygen and 100% oxygen gas mixtures during staged decompression prior to exposure to 3.5 psia... - Partial pressure of nitrogen in breathing mixtures and risk of altitude decompression sicknessAndrew A Pilmanis
Air Force Research Laboratory, AFRL HEPG, Brooks City Base, San Antonio, TX 78235 5105, USA
Aviat Space Environ Med 76:635-41. 2005..Many aircraft oxygen systems do not deliver 100% O2. Inert gases can be present at various levels. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of these inert gas levels on decompression sickness (DCS)... - Decompression sickness latency as a function of altitude to 25,000 feetTerry L Haske
Graduate Education Division, US Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine, Brooks AFB, TX 78235-5104, USA
Aviat Space Environ Med 73:1059-62. 2002..These times should be reduced for crewmembers engaged in heavy physical activity at altitude. CONCLUSIONS: This article proposes time limits for unpressurized flight above 21,000 ft to reduce DCS risk... - Altitude decompression sickness susceptibility: influence of anthropometric and physiologic variablesJames T Webb
Biosciences and Protection Division, Air Force Research Laboratory, Brooks City Base, TX, USA
Aviat Space Environ Med 76:547-51. 2005..We used this database to quantify the variation in susceptibility and determine if anthropometric and/or physiologic variables could be used to predict DCS risk... - Depressurization in military aircraft: rates, rapidity, and health effects for 1055 incidentsDouglas S Files
Department of Graduate Education, USAF School of Aerospace Medicine, Brooks City Base, TX 78235, USA
Aviat Space Environ Med 76:523-9. 2005..The purpose of the current study was to determine rates of depressurization incidents for U.S. military aircraft, to examine their causes, and to evaluate the medical importance of these incidents... - Enhancement of preoxygenation for decompression sickness protection: effect of exercise durationJames T Webb
Air Force Research Laboratory, Wyle Laboratories, Life Sciences, Systems, and Services Brooks AFB, San Antonio, TX 78232, USA
Aviat Space Environ Med 73:1161-6. 2002..min during preoxygenation was shown to provide better protection from decompression sickness (DCS) incidence than resting preoxygenation, a logical question was: would a longer period of strenuous exercise improve protection even further?.. - Altitude decompression sickness at 7620 m following prebreathe enhanced with exercise periodsJames T Webb
Wyle Laboratories, Life Sciences Systems Service, San Antonio, TX, USA
Aviat Space Environ Med 75:859-64. 2004..The current tests used multiple exercise sessions to enhance prebreathe (MEEP) as a means of improving denitrogenation efficiency... - Central nervous system decompression sickness and venous gas emboli in hypobaric conditionsUlf I Balldin
Wyle Laboratories, AFRL HEP, 2485 Gillingham Dr, Brooks City Base, TX 78235 5105, USA
Aviat Space Environ Med 75:969-72. 2004..Altitude decompression sickness (DCS) that involves the central nervous system (CNS) is a rare but potentially serious condition. Identification of early symptoms and signs of this condition might improve treatment... - Decompression sickness during simulated extravehicular activity: ambulation vs. non-ambulationJames T Webb
Life Sciences Group, Wyle Laboratories, San Antonio, TX, USA
Aviat Space Environ Med 76:778-81. 2005..The objective was to determine if symptom incidences during ambulatory and non-ambulatory exposures are comparable and provide analogous estimates of risk under otherwise identical conditions... - Pulmonary decompression sickness at altitude: early symptoms and circulating gas emboliUlf I Balldin
Biodynamics and Protection Division, Brooks Air Force Base, TX 78235 5104, USA
Aviat Space Environ Med 73:996-9. 2002..This study was aimed at characterizing early symptomatology and the appearance of venous gas emboli (VGE)... - Air break during preoxygenation and risk of altitude decompression sicknessAndrew A Pilmanis
Biosciences and Protection Division, Air Force Research Laboratory, Brooks City Base, TX, USA
Aviat Space Environ Med 81:944-50. 2010..The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between air breaks during PreOx and subsequent DCS and venous gas emboli (VGE) incidence, and to determine safe air break limits for operational activities... - The effect of simulated weightlessness on hypobaric decompression sicknessUlf I Balldin
Air Force Research Laboratory, Biodynamics and Protection Division, Brooks Air Force Base, TX 78235 5104, USA
Aviat Space Environ Med 73:773-8. 2002..This could be due to the effect of gravity during ground-based DCS studies... - Fifty years of decompression sickness research at Brooks AFB, TX: 1960-2010James T Webb
Scientific Aerospace Research Consulting SARC, LLC, San Antonio, TX, USA
Aviat Space Environ Med 82:A1-25. 2011..An Altitude DCS Risk Assessment Computer Model was fielded in 2005. This review centers on the results of research at Brooks and notes questions about operational DCS risk that have not yet been answered... - Case history of serious altitude decompression sickness following rapid rate of ascentJohn A Gibbons
Air Force Research Laboratory, Biodynamics and Protection Division, AFRL HEPR, High Altitude, Protection Research Brooks City Base, San Antonio, TX 78235, USA
Aviat Space Environ Med 74:675-8. 2003..The post-flight medical exam revealed multiple neurological abnormalities. He underwent a Table VI hyperbaric oxygen treatment with complete resolution of all abnormal neurological findings... - Gender not a factor for altitude decompression sickness riskJames T Webb
Air Force Research Laboratory Wyle Laboratories, Inc San Antonio, TX 78232, USA
Aviat Space Environ Med 74:2-10. 2003..We hypothesized that a controlled, prospective study would show no significant difference... - Altitude decompression sickness symptom resolution during descent to ground levelPatrick M Muehlberger
Wright State University Wright Patterson Air Force Base Emergency Medicine Residency Program, Dayton, OH, USA
Aviat Space Environ Med 75:496-9. 2004..Timely recompression (descent at first recognition of any DCS symptom) may be a safe, effective treatment for the large majority of DCS symptoms... - Headache and altitude decompression sickness: joint pain or neurological pain?L Michelle Bryce
Air Force Research Laboratory, Brooks City Base, TX, USA
Aviat Space Environ Med 76:1074-8. 2005..Since cranial sutures may be considered joints, it is possible that some headaches are actually joint pain and when associated with decompression sickness need not be neurological DCS... - Moderate exercise after altitude exposure fails to induce decompression sicknessJames T Webb
Wyle Laboratories, Life Sciences, Systems, and Services, San Antonio, TX 78232, USA
Aviat Space Environ Med 73:872-5. 2002..Existing USAF prohibition of exercise following altitude chamber training exposures and interest from operational personnel prompted our evaluation of post-exposure exercise as a DCS-inducing stressor...