Fundamentals of Aerospace Medicine

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).