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Acute Brain and Cardio-Respiratory Dysfunction After Blast/Blunt Injuries: The Life-Preserving Effects of Hyperbaric Oxygenation

Gennady G. Rogatsky and Avraham Mayevsky

The Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences and the Leslie and Susan Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52900, Israel

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