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PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF AVIATION MEDICINE CONTENTS FRONT MATTER i PART 1 INTRODUCTION The History and Development of Aviation Medicine Viktor Harsch 3 PART 2 INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS AND REQUIREMENTS ICAO International Medical Standards and Recommended Practices Claus Curdt-Christiansen 31 Federal Aviation Administration — Aviation Medicine Warren S. Silberman 41 Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) and European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) — Medical Requirements for Pilots in Europe Joerg Siedenburg and Annetje Roodenburg 53 PART 3 PHYSIOLOGY AND RADIATION Fundamentals of Aviation Physiology Dietrich Wirth and Ekkehart Rumberger 71 Cosmic Radiation Exposure of Flight Crews Lutz Bergau, Rainer Facius and Matthias M. Meier 151 PART 4 PREVENTION Physiology and Pathophysiology of Nutrition Herwig H. Ditschuneit 173 PART 5 CLINICAL AVIATION MEDICINE Introduction: The Role of Medical Factors in Accident Investigation Ilse Janicke, Norbert Schauer, Marcus Wieczorek and Reinhard Höltgen 205 Cardiovascular Risk Factors Norbert Schauer 209 Arterial Hypertension Norbert Schauer 227 Heart Diseases and Disorders Norbert Schauer 241 Coronary Artery Disease Ilse Janicke 255 Cardiac Valve Disease/Valve Replacement Isle Janicke 319 Cardiac Rhythm and Conduction Disturbances Reinhard Höltgen and Marcus Wieczorek 341 Congenital Heart Diseases Ilse Janicke 375 Vascular Diseases and Disorders Ilse Janicke 389 Ophthalmology for the Medical Examiner Rüdiger Schwartz and Jörg Draeger 399 Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) Medicine and Dentistry for Aeromedical Examiners Jürgen Kressin and Reinhard G. Matschke 447 Neurology for the Aeromedical Examiner Jürgen Kriebel and Frank Weber 495 Psychiatry Jürgen Kriebel and Matthias M. Weber 557 PART 6 PHYCHOLOGY Operational and Clinical Aviation Psychology Konrad Steininger and Dirk Stelling 611 Neuropsychological Disorders After Brain Injury and their Assessment Josef Zihl and Herbert Jacobs 639 The Man-Man Interface in the Man-Machine System of Commercial Aviation Aircraft Reiner W. Kemmler 657 PART 7 PASSENGERS Passenger Health Petra A. Illig 667 BACK MATTER 709 Back

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