
Handbook of Aviation and Space Medicine
First Edition
- 422 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Handbook of Aviation and Space Medicine
First Edition
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword by David Gradwell
- Foreword by Thomas W. Travis
- List of Contributors
- Chapter 1 Fixed wing aircraft
- Chapter 2 Rotary wing operations
- Chapter 3 Maritime aviation
- Chapter 4 Parachuting
- Chapter 5 Remotely piloted aircraft systems
- Chapter 6 Space flight
- Chapter 7 Pressure change
- Chapter 8 Sub-atmospheric decompression illness
- Chapter 9 Acute hypoxia and hyperventilation
- Chapter 10 Prevention of hypoxia
- Chapter 11 The pressure cabin and oxygen systems
- Chapter 12 Loss of cabin pressure and rapid decompression
- Chapter 13 High-altitude protection
- Chapter 14 Cosmic radiation
- Chapter 15 Acceleration physiology
- Chapter 16 Prevention of G-LOC
- Chapter 17 Short-duration acceleration
- Chapter 18 Restraint systems and escape from aircraft
- Chapter 19 Human physiology and the thermal environment
- Chapter 20 Aircrew equipment – General
- Chapter 21 Aircrew equipment – Head injury and protection
- Chapter 22 Aircrew equipment – Thermal protection and survival
- Chapter 23 Noise, hearing and vibration
- Chapter 24 Hearing protection and communication
- Chapter 25 Vision
- Chapter 26 Visual systems
- Chapter 27 Spatial orientation and disorientation in flight
- Chapter 28 Motion sickness
- Chapter 29 Human systems integration (HSI)
- Chapter 30 Selection and training
- Chapter 31 The flight deck and cockpit
- Chapter 32 Human factors and crew resource management
- Chapter 33 Fatigue and countermeasures
- Chapter 34 Errors and accidents
- Chapter 35 Accident investigation
- Chapter 36 Assessing risk and making decisions
- Chapter 37 Medication in aircrew
- Chapter 38 International regulation of medical standards
- Chapter 39 Aircrew medicals
- Chapter 40 Anthropometry
- Chapter 41 The health of the cabin crew
- Chapter 42 Air traffic control
- Chapter 43 Passenger fitness to fly
- Chapter 44 Travel health and infectious diseases
- Chapter 45 Aviation public health
- Chapter 46 Planning for aeromedical evacuation
- Chapter 47 Clinical considerations in prolonged aeromedical transfer
- Chapter 48 Hypertension
- Chapter 49 Atherosclerosis
- Chapter 50 Congenital heart disease
- Chapter 51 Valvular heart disease
- Chapter 52 Heart muscle disease
- Chapter 53 Arrhythmias and electrophysiology
- Chapter 54 Cardiac investigations
- Chapter 55 Respiratory disease
- Chapter 56 Gastroenterology
- Chapter 57 Metabolic and endocrine disorders
- Chapter 58 Malignant disease
- Chapter 59 Renal disease and aviation
- Chapter 60 Neurological disease
- Chapter 61 Ear, nose and throat
- Chapter 62 Orthopaedics
- Chapter 63 Haematology
- Chapter 64 Aviation psychiatry
- Index