Aviation medicine

Book title......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
List of contributors......Page 10
Foreword......Page 14
Preface......Page 16
The colour plate section......Page 434
PART I: AVIATION PHYSIOLOGY AND AIRCREW SYSTEMS......Page 18
1 The Earth's atmosphere......Page 20
2 Cardiovascular and respiratory physiology......Page 30
3 Hypoxia and hyperventilation......Page 58
4 Prevention of hypoxia......Page 74
5 Oxygen equipment and pressure clothing......Page 90
6 Principles of the pressure cabin and the effects of pressure change on body cavities containing gas......Page 126
7 Subatmospheric decompression sickness......Page 146
8 Effects of long-duration acceleration......Page 154
9 Protection against long-duration acceleration......Page 176
10 Short-duration acceleration......Page 186
11 Head injury and protection......Page 196
12 Human physiology and the thermal environment......Page 206
13 Thermal stress and survival......Page 230
14 Vibration......Page 248
15 Anthropometry and aircrew equipment integration......Page 264
16 Physiology of sleep and wakefulness, sleep disorders, and the effects on aircrew......Page 274
17 Optics and vision......Page 290
18 Spatial orientation in flight......Page 310
PART II: OPERATIONAL AVIATION MEDICINE......Page 324
19 Selection and training......Page 326
20 Crew resource management......Page 340
21 Air traffic control: aeromedical aspects and human factors......Page 354
22 Error and accidents......Page 366
23 The fight deck and cockpit......Page 376
24 Restraint systems and escape from aircraft......Page 390
25 In-flight communication......Page 402
26 Noise......Page 412
27 Aircrew and cosmic radiation......Page 442
28 Spatial disorientation in flight......Page 458
29 Motion sickness......Page 484
30 Passenger safety in transport aircraft......Page 502
31 Patient transport by air-logistic considerations......Page 512
32 Accident investigation......Page 532
33 Aviation pathology and toxicology......Page 542
34 Aircraft hygiene......Page 558
35 Naval air operations......Page 564
PART III: CLINICAL AVIATION MEDICINE......Page 570
36 International regulation of medical standards......Page 572
37 Cardiovascular disease......Page 592
38 Hypertension......Page 630
39 Respiratory disease......Page 636
40 Gastrointestinal disease......Page 654
41 Metabolic and endocrine disorders......Page 662
42 Renal disease......Page 672
43 Haematology......Page 680
44 Malignant disease......Page 690
45 Neurological disease......Page 708
46 Ophthalmology......Page 720
47 Otorhinolaryngology......Page 742
48 Aviation psychiatry......Page 752
49 Orthopaedics......Page 772
50 Clinical management of decompression illness......Page 782
51 Medication and aircrew......Page 792
52 Aviator fatigue and relevant fatigue countermeasures......Page 798
53 The ageing pilot......Page 810
54 Commercial passenger fitness to fly......Page 816
55 International travel and disease......Page 826
56 Aeromedical evacuation: medical aspects......Page 838
57 Aeromedical transfer of the critically ill patient......Page 850
Appendix......Page 860
A......Page 870
B......Page 872
C......Page 873
D......Page 875
E......Page 876
G......Page 877
H......Page 878
I......Page 879
M......Page 880
N......Page 882
P......Page 883
S......Page 885
T......Page 887
V......Page 888
Z......Page 889