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PREDICTIVE STUDIES V (PS V): Oxygen Tolerance and Toxicity.
Major Category: Pulmonary and neurologic O2 tolerance and toxicity (PS V)
Subcategory 2: Visual function. Degradation and recovery.

Expt. Title: Human tolerance to continuous O2 exposure at 1.5, 2.0, 2.5, and 3.0 ATA. Predictive Studies V. (Expt. 9.70)

Date: 1983-1987

Description: See PS V "Experiment protocols and measurement modules" for general description.

Measurements:

    Visual fields, electroretinogram, visual evoked cortical response, visual acuity, color vision, accommodation, pupillometry.

REPORT: Lambertsen, C.J., J.M. Clark, R. Gelfand, J.B. Pisarello, W.H. Cobbs, J.E. Bevilacqua, D.M. Schwartz, D.J. Montabana, C.S. Leach, P.C. Johnson, and D.E. Fletcher. Definition of tolerance to continuous hyperoxia in man. An abstract report of Predictive Studies V. In: Underwater and Hyperbaric Physiology IX. Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on Underwater and Hyperbaric Physiology. Edited by A.A. Bove, A.J. Bachrach, and L.J. Greenbaum. Bethesda: Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society, 1987. pp. 717-735.

REPORT: Lambertsen, C.J. Extension of O2 tolerance in man: Philosophy and significance. Experimental Lung Research 14: 1035-1058, 1988.

REPORT: Lambertsen, C.J., J.M. Clark, R. Gelfand, J. Pisarello, R. Jackson, R. Marsh, W. Cobbs, R. Harner, J. Bevilacqua, D. Fletcher, and D. Montabana. Predictive Studies V - Tolerance of human organs and functions to continuous hyperoxia (ABSTRACT). Undersea Biomed. Res. 11 (Supp.): 34, 1984.

REPORT: Clark, J.M., C.J. Lambertsen, D.J. Montabana, R. Gelfand, and W.H. Cobbs. Comparison of visual function effects in man during continuous O2 exposures at 3.0 and 2.0 ATA for 3.4 and 9.0 hours (in Predictive Studies V) (ABSTRACT). Undersea Biomed. Res. 15 (Supp.): 32, 1988.

REPORT: Clark, J.M., R. Gelfand, W.C. Stevens, and C.J. Lambertsen. Comparison of human visual and pulmonary responses to continuous and intermittent O2 exposure at 2.0 ATA in Predictive Studies V and VI (ABSTRACT). Undersea Biomed. Res. 18 (Supp.): 86, 1991.

REPORT: Clark, J.M., R. Gelfand, W.C. Stevens, and C.J. Lambertsen. Unexpected pattern of pulmonary and visual O2 tolerance extension in man during intermittent hyperoxia at 2.0 ATA in Predictive Studies VI (ABSTRACT). Undersea Biomed. Res. 19 (Supp.): 90-91, 1992.

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