Observed bubble dynamics in oxygen or heliox breathing and altitude decompression sickness.

altitude decompression sickness (DCS) is a common risk in aviation and has been extensively studied over the past two decades ([2][1], [3][2], [9][3]). Attempts have been made to find a correlation between ultrasonic bubble detection and symptoms of altitude DCS ([1][4], [8][5]). Models

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