Recent Advances in Aerospace Medicine

Section I / Man in the Exploration of Space.- Summary of Medical Experience in the Apollo 7 through 11 Manned Spaceflights.- Physiological Information Monitoring Techniques for the Soyuz Spacecraft.- Peculiarities of Responses of the Acoustic Analyzer of Man Exposed to Prolonged Noise Effects During a Year-Long Medico- Engineering Experiment.- Exobiology.- Section II / Clinical Aviation Medicine.- Coronary Risk Factors and Prevention.- Expertise cardiologique et personnel navigant: ses principales difficultés.- Syndrome de Wolff-Parkinson et White et aptitude au personnel navigant.- Norms for Quantitative Vectorcardiography with Special Emphasis on the Medical Evaluation of Flying Personnel.- The Diagnostics of Early Forms of Atherosclerosis and Latent Coronary Insufficiency in Flight Crews.- Medical Wastage of Military and Civil Aircrew in Great Britain 1963—68.- Les malaises en vol dans l’armée de l’air française: étude analytique de 1961 à 1968.- Selection of Airline Transport Pilots: Psychiatric and Psychological Approach.- À propos des recommandations de l’O.A.C.I. sur les normes auditives du personnel navigant technique.- A Study of Simulated Airline Pilot Incapacitation. Phase I: Obvious and Maximal Loss of Function.- Prevention of Food-Borne Diseases in Civil Aviation.- Unscheduled Landings for Medical Reasons: A Five-year Survey of the Experience at American Airlines.- U.S. Aircraft Hijackings — Epidemiological Considerations.- Experience with a Physiologically-Based Formula for Determining Rest Periods on Long-Distance Air Travel.- Hypnotics and Jet-Age Travel.- Psychothérapies et chimiothérapies en médecine aéronautique.- La part de la radiologie dans l’enquete médicale après éjection des pilotes militaires d’avions à réaction.-The Centrifuge as a Therapeutic Device.- Selective g-Force Application in the Treatment of Retinal Detachment.- Section III / Man in His Gaseous Environment.- Decompression Sickness in Aviation.- Decompression Sickness and the Cardiovascular System.- Factors Influencing the Time of Safe Unconsciousness (TSU) for Commercial Jet Passengers Following Cabin Decompression.- Gas Exchange at Low Ambient Pressure.- Oxygen Tolerances and Adverse Reactions.- Oscillations in Expiratory Gas Flow During Performance of Forced Vital Capacity.- Section IV / Man in His Kinetic Environment.- Dynamic Cross-Coupling in the Semicircular Canals.- Interactions between Semicircular Canals and Gravireceptors.- The Threshold Value for Stimulation of the Horizontal Semicircular Canals.- Central Regulation of Vestibular Function.- Tracking Performance During Sinusoidal Stimulation of the Vertical and Horizontal Semicircular Canals.- Un nouveau test de désorientation spatiale avec quelques résultats concernant le rôle des otolithes dans le mécanisme de reorientation.- Importance of Labyrinthine and Other Sensory Information for Normal Driving.- Studies of Effects of Variations in the Direction and Magnitude of the Gravitational-Inertial Force Environment on the Cardiovascular and Respiratory Systems.- Effets des accélérations positives prolongées (+3 Gz) sur les variations du débit cardiaque humain. (Mesure par pléthysmographic électrique aortique transthoracique: influence du vêtement anti-G).- Résistance du corps humain aux accélérations élevées de courte durée: effets mécaniques et hémo-dynamiques.- The Effect of Supersonic Flying on the Urinary Catecholamine Excretion in Pilots.- Section V / Man in His Thermal Environment.- Tolerance à la chaleur dans le cas de panne de laclimatisation sur avion de transport supersonique.- Influence de l’altitude sur les échanges thermiques de l’homme.- Section VI / Man in his Temporal Environment.- Circadian Periodicity of Reaction-Times.- Circadian Rhythm and Performance.- The Urinary Excretion of Hormonal Metabolites Before, During and After Intercontinental Flights.- Methods for the Study of the Behaviour of Human Circadian Rhythms in Kidney Function Before, During and After Global Flights.