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Hazards of Air Travel for the Obese: Miss Pickwick and the Boeing 747

A morbidly obese woman took a touring holiday which included two long flights and a stay at altitude. At the end of the second week of her holiday she was admitted to hospital in respiratory and cardiac failure. When she was better she travelled home by a combination of air ambulance and scheduled f...

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Autor principal: Toff, Nicholas J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Royal College of Physicians of London 1993
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5396708/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8289155
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description A morbidly obese woman took a touring holiday which included two long flights and a stay at altitude. At the end of the second week of her holiday she was admitted to hospital in respiratory and cardiac failure. When she was better she travelled home by a combination of air ambulance and scheduled flights with a medical escort. This extreme case illustrates some of the physiological and physical challenges of air travel to the obese passenger, which may precipitate respiratory and cardiac decompensation in susceptible individuals. When advising these patients, consultation with the airline medical department is recommended, and preflight testing by altitude simulation may be helpful. If medical transport is required, there may be particular problems in lifting and accommodating these patients on board normal air ambulance aircraft.
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spelling pubmed-53967082019-01-22 Hazards of Air Travel for the Obese: Miss Pickwick and the Boeing 747 Toff, Nicholas J J R Coll Physicians Lond Original Papers A morbidly obese woman took a touring holiday which included two long flights and a stay at altitude. At the end of the second week of her holiday she was admitted to hospital in respiratory and cardiac failure. When she was better she travelled home by a combination of air ambulance and scheduled flights with a medical escort. This extreme case illustrates some of the physiological and physical challenges of air travel to the obese passenger, which may precipitate respiratory and cardiac decompensation in susceptible individuals. When advising these patients, consultation with the airline medical department is recommended, and preflight testing by altitude simulation may be helpful. If medical transport is required, there may be particular problems in lifting and accommodating these patients on board normal air ambulance aircraft. Royal College of Physicians of London 1993-10 /pmc/articles/PMC5396708/ /pubmed/8289155 Text en © Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London 1994 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) , which permits non-commercial use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8289155
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