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Intractable airsickness associated with COVID-19: A case report

A 29-yr-old male Melicopter co-pilot with high flight hours in air transport missions of the patients with COVID-19 tested positive for his RT-PCR due to clinical suspicion. With the diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2, he was treated based on the national protocol and stayed in the home quarantine for two week...

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Autores principales: Talebi Bezmin Abadi, H., Abadi, A.T.B., Farahani, A.A., Darvishi, M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier España, S.L.U. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7688289/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33262681
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vacun.2020.11.001
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author Talebi Bezmin Abadi, H.
Abadi, A.T.B.
Farahani, A.A.
Darvishi, M.
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description A 29-yr-old male Melicopter co-pilot with high flight hours in air transport missions of the patients with COVID-19 tested positive for his RT-PCR due to clinical suspicion. With the diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2, he was treated based on the national protocol and stayed in the home quarantine for two weeks. Having been released for flying, he faced nausea, vomiting, facial cold sweat and pallor, dizziness, and imbalance that eventually caused flying avoidance during the three first flights. He has never had a similar problem or any predisposing factors during his pilot's training and afterwards. All the probable reasons ruled out after a complete assessment. Following the diagnosis of moderate airsickness, he was abstained from flying and treated with different prevention and rehabilitation techniques. None of them had enough clinical efficacies, applying the United States Air Force Preventive Airsickness Protocol as the last choice. Despite the three separate consecutive therapeutic courses, no significant clinical improvement was observed, and could not return to fly, yet. That is the first reported case of intractable airsickness in a flight crew that may be associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection.
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spelling pubmed-76882892020-11-27 Intractable airsickness associated with COVID-19: A case report Talebi Bezmin Abadi, H. Abadi, A.T.B. Farahani, A.A. Darvishi, M. Vacunas Case Report A 29-yr-old male Melicopter co-pilot with high flight hours in air transport missions of the patients with COVID-19 tested positive for his RT-PCR due to clinical suspicion. With the diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2, he was treated based on the national protocol and stayed in the home quarantine for two weeks. Having been released for flying, he faced nausea, vomiting, facial cold sweat and pallor, dizziness, and imbalance that eventually caused flying avoidance during the three first flights. He has never had a similar problem or any predisposing factors during his pilot's training and afterwards. All the probable reasons ruled out after a complete assessment. Following the diagnosis of moderate airsickness, he was abstained from flying and treated with different prevention and rehabilitation techniques. None of them had enough clinical efficacies, applying the United States Air Force Preventive Airsickness Protocol as the last choice. Despite the three separate consecutive therapeutic courses, no significant clinical improvement was observed, and could not return to fly, yet. That is the first reported case of intractable airsickness in a flight crew that may be associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection. Elsevier España, S.L.U. 2021 2020-11-25 /pmc/articles/PMC7688289/ /pubmed/33262681 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vacun.2020.11.001 Text en © 2021 Elsevier España, S.L.U. 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.
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Intractable airsickness associated with COVID-19: A case report
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title_short Intractable airsickness associated with COVID-19: A case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7688289/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33262681
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vacun.2020.11.001
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