Aerospace medicine is that specialty area of medicine concerned with the determination and maintenance of the health, safety and performance of those who fly in the air or in space. The aerospace medicine specialist is concerned with the effects of the environmental and vehicular stresses upon those who fly. This text covers the information in the medical specialties that have to do with aerospace medicine including otolaryngology, ophthalmology, cardiology, neurology, psychiatry, psychology and pathology.
Aerospace medicine is that specialty area of medicine concerned with the determination and maintenance of the health, safety and performance of those who fly in the air or in space. The aerospace medicine specialist is concerned with the effects of the environmental and vehicular stresses upon those who fly. This text covers the information in the medical specialties that have to do with aerospace medicine including otolaryngology, ophthalmology, cardiology, neurology, psychiatry, psychology and pathology.
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Part 1 Aerospace medicine in perspective: historical, modern and future perspectives. Part 2 Physiology in the flight environment: the atmosphere; respiratory physiology; protection in the pressure environment; decompression sickness and pulmonary overpressure accidents; biodynamics; vibration, noise and communication; spatial orientation in flight; thermal stress; beyond the biosphere. Part 3 Clinical practice of aerospace medicine: aircrew health care maintenance; clinical aerospace cardiovascular and pulmonary medicine; ophthalmology, otolaryngology, neuropsychiatry in aerospace medicine; the passenger and patient in flight. Part 4 Operational aerospace medicine: army aviation medicine; naval aerospace medicine; civil aviation medicine; international aviation medicine; aircraft accident investigation; human factors in aerospace medicine; biomedical challenges of spaceflight; aircraft accidents - prevention, survival and rescue. Part 5 Impact of the aerospace industry on community health: role of aviation in the transmission of disease; aviation and the environment. (Part contents).
