Decompression Sickness during Construction of the Dartford Tunnel
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Decompression sickness during construction of the Dartford Tunnel.
A clinical, radiological and statistical survey has been made of decompression sickness during the construction of the Dartford Tunnel. Over a period of two years, 1,200 men were employed on eight-hour shifts at pressures up to 28 pounds per square inch (p.s.i.). There were 689 cases of decompression sickness out of 122,000 compressions, an incidence of 0-56%. The majority of cases (94-9 %) wer...
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عنوان ژورنال: Occupational and Environmental Medicine
سال: 1960
ISSN: 1351-0711
DOI: 10.1136/oem.17.3.167