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New: Why are Routine Flight Operations Killing Pilots and their Passengers? (Robert Baron)

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Bibliographic resources

A searchable bibliography of aerospace medical publications (Free, on this website ... 1930 - present. Abstracts and some full articles. Powerful search options.)
Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine abstracts page (Free)
- Browse (Free. 1996 - 2003. Abstracts can be browsed one at a time)
- Search (Free. Limited capability)
Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine journal online (Ingenta: Subscribers or pay-for-service. 2003 - present. Full articles available.)
Entez PUBMED (Free MEDLINE and other bibliographic databases ... huge and not limited to aerospace medicine. Abstracts available.)
- New Entrez cross-database search-engine (Free)

Articles

Economy Class Syndrome.Traveller's Thrombosis. DVT
- Travellers Thrombosis: Deep Vein Thrombosis associated with travel
- Deep Vein Thrombosis associated with Air Travel: Research to date
Illusions and disorientation
- The Senses During Flight
- Dark night takeoff
- Approach and landing illusions
- The leans
- Aircrew dizziness during a flight
Alcohol, drugs, and medications
- Alcohol and Aviation
- Drinking and flying: The effects of blood alcohol levels on a pilot's cognitive and motor functioning skills
- Herbal medicine & Flying
- The dangers of Viagra use in pilots
Flying with a cold
- It's only a cold
- Which medicine should you take with a cold?
Altitude effects and oxygen
- The effects of ascent and descent on gas collections within the body
- High altitude and its effects on exercise performance
- Hypoxia: An analysis of our evolving understanding and management of the phenomenon
- Oxygen Equipment and Aviation
- Hyperbarics and hyperbaric medicine
- Making friends with your middle ear
Air Rage.
- Air Rage: Disruptive Passengers. The causes & the cures
- Air Rage: Modern-Day Dogfight
Motion sickness
- Motion Sickness
Acceleration and 'G'
- G-LOC, Could it happen to you?
- G-Tolerance training: methods, capabilities, and new developments
- Maximum +Gz loads of some 1930s vintage fighter aircraft
ENT, Hearing, Noise, & Hearing Protection
- Hearing Protection: Stick it in your ear
- Hearing & Noise in Aviation
- The 'flu' and my ears
- Noise Induced Hearing Loss on the Flight Deck
- Hearing function during cockpit noise conditions
- Auditory effects of hypoxia
  - Auditory Thresholds
  - Auditory Localisation
- Aircraft noise and its management
- Flying post Stapedectomy
- Suitability of hearing tests
- Making friends with your middle ear
Vision, colour vision, and eye surgery etc
- Aviation Night Vision
- Perceptual requirements for personnel working on aicraft electrical wiring assembly
- Pilot with sudden loss of vision in one eye

Fatigue and circadian disruption
- Fatigue in Aviation. (Dr S Strauss)
- Jet-lag & transmeridien flight
- Shift work in a meteorological officer
Age related issues
- Carrying children and babies in light aircraft
- The Age 60 Rule
- Hints for Air Travel with a Child
Cardiac and cardiovascular
- Airline use of Automatic External Defibrillators
- Cardiac Pacemaker Failures in an Airman with Congenital Heart Disease
- High blood pressure and student pilot medical
- ATPL Captain with Right Bundle Branch Block
- White Coat Hypertension
Respiratory

Neurology and neurosurgery

Endocrinology and neuroendocrinology

Renal

Kidney disease and annual medical examinations

Infections and vaccinations

Space and space medicine
- Considerations for Crew Rescue from the ISS (Dr K Smart)
- Artificial Gravity
- Humans in space
- Adaptation to Spaceflight
- Filtering water sources for use in hydrating IV fluids during space flight
- Countermeasures to long-duration space flight
Human Factors
- Why are Routine Flight Operations Killing Pilots and their Passengers? (Robert Baron)
- Should We Try to Eliminate Human Error?
  - Part 1
  - Part 2
Aircraft accidents
- Aircraft Fires, Smoke Toxicity, and Survival
  - Part 1
  - Part 2
  - Part 3
- Aircraft crash site before the arrival of the accident investigation personnel
Pilot Health
- Monitoring Your Blood Pressure
- Cholesterol (Know your numbers)
- Physical Fitness
- Anger: How to control a killer emotion
- Vitamin & Mineral Supplements.
- Exercise & Heart Disease
- Dieting, Fat, and all that

Exercise Rhabdomyolysis and military aviation
Got nothing but blue skies
Backed-up Bile (A Case Study)
Gynaecological disorders & flying
Was the Red Baron 'Fit to Fly'?
Aerobatics - "The irresistable challenge"
Toxic hazards in workplace after a chemical spill
Workplace contact dermatitis
Supermanoeuverability and Superagility
Occupational health of agricultural workers
Use of 'secondary effects of controls' in the flight of an aircraft
The DESIRE to fly (A Case Study).
AOPA (Australia) "Flyin' the ointment" articles.

Presentations

Aeromed-List: The Aeromedical internet Mailing List: AsMA 1999
Auditory Performance & Hypoxia: AsMA 1999
Exertional rhabdomyolysis and military aircrew: AsMA 1998
Use of Acoustic Manikin for cockpit noise analysis: AsMA 1997
Assessing Risk Aeromedical Decision Making and the 1% Rule
Earplugs ain't earplugs Sol!" Insert earplug noise attenuation in military aircraft: AsMA 1997
Crew Resource Management
- Communication
- Behavioural Styles
- Fatigue
- LOFT
- Situational Awareness
- Stress
IATA SARS presentation

Aviation, Space, & Environmental Medicine (AS&EM). A searchable bibliography of AS&EM and other Aerospace Medical Publications AS&EM abstracts page AS&EM journal online (Ingenta: Subscribers or pay-for-service) AS&EM ables of contents:
Volume 75 (2004) Issue 12 (December Issue 11 (November) Issue 10 (October) Issue 9 (September) Issue 8 (August) Issue 7 (July) Issue 6 (June) Issue 5 (May) Issue 4 (April) Issue 3 (March) Issue 2 (February) Issue 1 (January)	Volume 74 (2003) Issue 12 (December Issue 11 (November) Issue 10 (October) Issue 9 (September) Issue 8 (August) Issue 7 (July) Issue 6 (June) Issue 5 (May) Issue 4 (April) Issue 3 (March) Issue 2 (February) Issue 1 (January	Volume 73 (2002) Issue 12 (December) Issue 11 (November) Issue 10 (October) Issue 9 (September) Issue 8 (August) Issue 7 (July) Issue 6 (June) Issue 5 (May) Issue 4 (April) Issue 3 (March) Issue 2 (February) Issue 1 (January)
Volume 72 (2001) Issue 12 (December) Issue 11 (November) Issue 10 (October) Issue 9 (September) Issue 8 (August) Issue 7 (July) Issue 6 (June) Issue 5 (May) Issue 4 (April) Issue 3 (March) Issue 2 (February) Issue 1 (January)	Volume 71 (2000) Issue 1 (January) Issue 2 (February) Issue 3 (March) Issue 4 (April) Issue 5 (May) Issue 6 (June) Issue 7 (July) Issue 8 (August) Issue 9 (September) Issue 9, Section II (September Supplement) Issue 10 (October) Issue 11 (November) Issue 12 (December	Volume 70 (1999) Issue 1 (January) Issue 2 (February) Issue 3 (March) Issue 3, Section II (March Supplement) Issue 4 (April) Issue 5 (May) Issue 6 (June) Issue 7 (July) Issue 8 (August) Issue 9 (September) Issue 10 (October) Issue 11 (November) Issue 12 (December
Volume 69 (1998) Issue 1 (January) Issue 2 (February) Issue 3 (March) Issue 4 (April) Issue 5 (May) Issue 6 (June) Issue 7 (July) Issue 8 (August) Issue 9 (September) Issue 10 (October) Issue 11 (November) Issue 12 (December)	Volume 68 (1997) Issue 1 (January) Issue 2 (February) Issue 3 (March) Issue 4 (April) Issue 5 (May) Issue 6 (June) Issue 7 (July) Issue 8 (August) Issue 9 (September) Issue 10 (October) Issue 11 (November) Issue 12 (December)	Volume 67 (1996) Issue 6 (June) Issue 7 (July) Issue 8 (August) Issue 9 (September) Issue 10 (October) Issue 11 (November) Issue 12 (December)

Manuals, Guides, & Handbooks

NASA Aerospace Medicine.
- NASA STI Publications - Aerospace Medicine and Biology
US Navy Aerospace Medicine
- US Navy Flight Surgeon's Handbook
- US Navy Flight Surgeon's Manual
USAF Aerospace Medicine
- RAM's site: Aerospace Medicine Review Topics & Seminars
- USAF Flight Surgeon's Guide
US Federal Aviation Authority
- FAA Office of Aviation Medicine Civil Aeromedical Institute: Aviation Medicine Reports & Publications

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