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Medical issues associated with commercial flights
Almost 2 billion people travel aboard commercial airlines every year. Health-care providers and travellers need to be aware of the potential health risks associated with air travel. Environmental and physiological changes that occur during routine commercial flights lead to mild hypoxia and gas expa...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7137984/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19232708 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(09)60209-9 |
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description | Almost 2 billion people travel aboard commercial airlines every year. Health-care providers and travellers need to be aware of the potential health risks associated with air travel. Environmental and physiological changes that occur during routine commercial flights lead to mild hypoxia and gas expansion, which can exacerbate chronic medical conditions or incite acute in-flight medical events. The association between venous thromboembolism and long-haul flights, cosmic-radiation exposure, jet lag, and cabin-air quality are growing health-care issues associated with air travel. In-flight medical events are increasingly frequent because a growing number of individuals with pre-existing medical conditions travel by air. Resources including basic and advanced medical kits, automated external defibrillators, and telemedical ground support are available onboard to assist flight crew and volunteering physicians in the management of in-flight medical emergencies. |
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spelling | pubmed-71379842020-04-07 Medical issues associated with commercial flights Silverman, Danielle Gendreau, Mark Lancet Article Almost 2 billion people travel aboard commercial airlines every year. Health-care providers and travellers need to be aware of the potential health risks associated with air travel. Environmental and physiological changes that occur during routine commercial flights lead to mild hypoxia and gas expansion, which can exacerbate chronic medical conditions or incite acute in-flight medical events. The association between venous thromboembolism and long-haul flights, cosmic-radiation exposure, jet lag, and cabin-air quality are growing health-care issues associated with air travel. In-flight medical events are increasingly frequent because a growing number of individuals with pre-existing medical conditions travel by air. Resources including basic and advanced medical kits, automated external defibrillators, and telemedical ground support are available onboard to assist flight crew and volunteering physicians in the management of in-flight medical emergencies. Elsevier Ltd. 2009 2009-02-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7137984/ /pubmed/19232708 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(09)60209-9 Text en Copyright © 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Silverman, Danielle Gendreau, Mark Medical issues associated with commercial flights |
title | Medical issues associated with commercial flights |
title_full | Medical issues associated with commercial flights |
title_fullStr | Medical issues associated with commercial flights |
title_full_unstemmed | Medical issues associated with commercial flights |
title_short | Medical issues associated with commercial flights |
title_sort | medical issues associated with commercial flights |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7137984/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19232708 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(09)60209-9 |
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