The Environmental Biomedical Stress Data Center (EBSDC)

The Environmental Biomedical Stress Data Center was developed prior to and then in close conjunction with the Institute for Environmental Medicine. It complements experiments activities of the Institute related laboratories nationally and internationally.  Its functions as an open Center are concerned with accumulation and analytic integration of detailed data relating to quantitatable effects in human exposures to physiologic, biophysical and toxic stresses of unusual environments. These include aerospace extravehicular states and emergency states in occupied aerospace and oceanspace systems. The Stress Data Center serves in part for preservation of past and current sources of unique environmental stress and protective adaptations research information.

Such functions provide a living and growing archive of hard data used as a basis for direct support of national and international agencies in design of new programs or research, and especially for the integration and quantitative predictive modeling of methods for describing human physiologic tolerance and performance capabilities. The predictive models are used as practical for application to development of new procedures, to improve safety and capability in adverse environmental situations. It has been the basis for continuing scientific advisory functions to NASA, Navy and other federal agencies, universities, and industry from its origins to the present. Current major applications are the development and validation trials for a new form of multiple depth "diving" decompression, and Nitrox diving procedures for NOAA and NASA uses. With the completion of the Program of Pulmonary Oxygen Tolerance Predictive Modeling it is planned to integrate this model with the EBSDC computer-driven model of decompression stress, already in active use.

Activity includes the lasting electronic recording and accessibility of analytic developments and organizations of empirical data systems.

In developing quantitative models of correlated physiologic responses to combined environmental stress and physical activity, recent online information provides for dynamic measures of responses allowing analysis of both stress-effect and time-based interrelations for the multiple functions affected.

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