Fundamentals of Aerospace Medicine

This comprehensive text addresses all medical and public health issues involved in the care of crews, passengers, and support personnel in aircraft and space vehicles. Since publication of the first edition, the Space Shuttle program has launched and ended, the MIR Space Station has been replaced by the International Space Station, and commercial aviation continues to expand with long-range, feul-efficient aircraft carrying 500+ passengers. The text is intended for specialists who treat combat pilots, where acceleration environments provide challanges to human performance, to physicians treating commercial aviation professionals who are exposed to new diseases and risks by an increasingly mobile populace. Specific chapters inlude the physiology of flying on the body and specific clinical considerations,including headache, respiratory disease, radiation exposure, and cardiovascular diseas