Barotrauma during air travel: predictions of a mathematical model
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Barotrauma during air travel: predictions of a mathematical model.
Middle ear barotrauma during flight is a painful disorder experienced by passengers who cannot properly regulate their middle ear pressure in response to the changing cabin pressures during ascent and descent. Previous reports emphasized the important role of poor eustachian tube function in disease pathogenesis but paid little attention to other moderating factors. Here we describe a mathemati...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Applied Physiology
سال: 2005
ISSN: 8750-7587,1522-1601
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00974.2004