ABSTRACT

This highly practical guide is ideal for any medical professional who deals with the aerospace environment or is involved in the healthcare of aircrew or individuals preparing for or returning from aerospace travel. The book covers all the main aspects of aerospace medicine, including the salient physiology and clinical aspects in note form for rapid assimilation, and makes plentiful use of figures, algorithms and tables throughout.

Key Features:

• Comprehensive covering all aspects of clinical aerospace medicine and relevant physiology

• Note-based for rapid reference in the clinical setting

• Highly practical with illustrations and tables supporting the text throughout

• From a highly experienced international team of editors and contributors

• Ideal as a handbook companion, complementing the definitive reference Ernsting’s Aviation and Space Medicine, for use ‘on the go’

The book will be an indispensable companion to all civil and military aviation medicine practitioners including those preparing for professional qualifying examinations, and a useful aid for other physicians with an interest in aviation medicine or who are required to inform patients regularly regarding the likely effects of flight, including family practitioners and hospital doctors, physiologists with an interest in the area and occupational and public health personnel.

chapter Chapter 3|4 pages

Maritime aviation

chapter Chapter 4|11 pages

Parachuting

chapter Chapter 6|7 pages

Space flight

chapter Chapter 7|7 pages

Pressure change

chapter Chapter 14|4 pages

Cosmic radiation

chapter Chapter 16|6 pages

Prevention of G-LOC

chapter Chapter 25|9 pages

Vision

chapter Chapter 26|7 pages

Visual systems

chapter Chapter 28|7 pages

Motion sickness

chapter Chapter 39|4 pages

Aircrew medicals

chapter Chapter 40|4 pages

Anthropometry

chapter Chapter 42|4 pages

Air traffic control

chapter Chapter 48|5 pages

Hypertension

chapter Chapter 49|4 pages

Atherosclerosis

chapter Chapter 55|5 pages

Respiratory disease

chapter Chapter 56|4 pages

Gastroenterology

chapter Chapter 58|4 pages

Malignant disease

chapter Chapter 62|4 pages

Orthopaedics

chapter Chapter 63|6 pages

Haematology