Recent Advances in Aerospace Medicine: Proceedings XVIII International Congress of Aviation and Space Medicine Amsterdam 1969

ISBN-13: 9789401033190 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 368 str.

D. E. Busby

Opis

This book is a collection of scientific papers presented at the XVIII International Congress of Aviation and Space Medicine held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, from 15-18 September 1969. It is dedicated to General E. de Vries and Dr. K. Vaan- drager, President and Vice-President of the Congress, who wished that this unsur- passed exchange of scientific information by distinguished authorities of the inter- national aerospace medical community be made readily available to all as a valuable source of information. I am deeply grateful to the Congress Committee for honoring me with this editorship, to the authors for submitting generally excellent manuscripts and to the publisher for compiling a book of such high quality. This book contains both Main Theme papers, given by invited lecturers, and selected Free Communications at the Congress. Main Themes were 'physiology of atmospheric pressure' (papers by Ernsting, Meijne, Sluijter, Behnke), 'vestibular problems in aviation medicine' (papers by Melvill Jones, Benson, Oosterveld, Groen, Guedry and Benson, Brandt, Henriksson and Nilsson), 'aviation and cardiology' (papers by Blackburn, Wood) and 'space medicine' (paper by Berry). The Free Communications herein focus on many areas of continuing and timely interest to clinicians and investigators in aerospace medicine. Selection and health maintenance of pilots, medical problems in airline passengers, use of the centrifuge as a therapeutic device, and circadian rhythm effects on man's psychophysiological state receive particular attention.

Spis treści

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 la climatisation 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.