Ernsting's Aviation and Space Medicine applies current understanding in medicine, physiology and the behavioural sciences to the medical challenges and stresses that are faced by both civil and military aircrew, and their passengers, on a daily basis. The fifth edition of this established textbook has been revised and updated by a multi-disciplinar

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Front Cover
Accessing the E-book Edition
Contents
Contributors to the Fifth Edition
Air Vice Marshal Professor John Ernsting
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Part I: Aviation Physiology and Aircrew Systems
Chapter 1: The Earth’s Atmosphere
Chapter 2: Cardiovascular Physiology
Chapter 3: Respiratory Physiology
Chapter 4: Hypoxia and Hyperventilation
Chapter 5: Prevention of Hypoxia
Chapter 6: Oxygen Systems, Pressure Cabin and Clothing
Chapter 7: Long Duration Acceleration
Chapter 8: Short Duration Acceleration
Chapter 9: Head Injury and Protection
Chapter 10: Restraint Systems and Escape from Aircraft
Chapter 11: Human Physiology in the Thermal Environment
Chapter 12: Thermal Protection and Survival
Chapter 13: Vibration
Chapter 14: Anthropometry and Aircrew Equipment Integration
Chapter 15: Physiology of Sleep and Wakefulness, Sleep Disorders and the Effects on Aircrew
Chapter 16: Optics and Vision
Chapter 17: Spatial Orientation and Disorientation in Flight
Part II: Space Physiology and Medicine
Chapter 18: Space Physiology and Medicine
Part III: Clinical Aviation Medicine
Chapter 19: International Regulation of Medical Standards
Chapter 20: Aeromedical Risk: A Numerical Approach
Chapter 21: Cardiovascular Disease
Chapter 22: Hypertension
Chapter 23: Respiratory Disease
Chapter 24: Aviation Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Chapter 25: Metabolic and Endocrine Disorders
Chapter 26: Renal Disease
Chapter 27: Haematology
Chapter 28: Malignant Disease
Chapter 29: Neurological Disease
Chapter 30: Ophthalmology
Chapter 31: Otorhinolaryngology
Chapter 32: Aviation Psychiatry
Chapter 33: Orthopaedics and Trauma
Chapter 34: Decompression Illness
Chapter 35: Medication in Aircrew
Chapter 36: Aviator Fatigue and Relevant Fatigue Countermeasures
Chapter 37: Infectious Disease and Air Travel
Chapter 38: Human Immunodeficiency Virus
Chapter 39: Cabin Crew Health
Chapter 40: Commercial Passenger Fitness to Fly
Chapter 41: Military Aeromedical Evacuation
Chapter 42: Civilian Aeromedical Retrieval
Chapter 43: Patient Transfer: The Critically Ill
Part IV: Operational Aviation Medicine
Chapter 44: Pilot Selection and Training
Chapter 45: Crew Resource Management
Chapter 46: Air Traffic Control
Chapter 47: Errors and Accidents
Chapter 48: The Flight Deck and Cockpit
Chapter 49: In-flight Communication
Chapter 50: Noise
Chapter 51: Aircrew and Cosmic Radiation
Chapter 52: Motion Sickness
Chapter 53: Passenger Safety in Civil Aviation
Chapter 54: Rotary Wing Operation by Land and Sea
Chapter 55: Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles
Chapter 56: Aircraft Hygiene
Chapter 57: Accident Investigation and Aviation Pathology
Appendix: Units of Measurements
Color Insert
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