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Aviation Medicine Aspects

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Medical aid personnel working in conflicts, catastrophes, and remote areas may be required to interface with aviation in a variety of ways. Firstly, they may be inserted, deployed and recovered by air, secondly they may be shuttled from location to location in their operational area by air, or be involved in medical reconnaissance or search and rescue utilising aircraft. Thirdly, they may be required to assist in the safe landing of medical evacuation aircraft, prepare patients for aero-medical evacuation, load them into aircraft, and occasionally act as flight medical attendants, accom-panying and supporting patients in flight, and ensuring appropriate handover and disposal on arrival.

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  1. Campbell MacFarlane
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  1. Leonard Cheshire Centre of Conflict Recovery, Royal Free and University College Medical School Academic Division of Surgical Specialties, 4 Taviton Street, London, WC1H 0BT

    James Ryan MB, BCh, BAO, MCh, FRCS, DMCC, FFAEM (Hon) (Leonard Cheshire Professor), Peter F. Mahoney TD, MSc, FRCA, FFARCSI, FIMC, RCS (Edin), DMCC (Honorary Senior Lecturer) & Ian Greaves MB, ChB, MRCP (UK), DMCC, DipIMCRCS (Ed) (Honorary Senior Lecturer) (Leonard Cheshire Professor),  (Honorary Senior Lecturer) &  (Honorary Senior Lecturer)

  2. Southampton General Hospital, Trenoma Road, Southampton, SO16 6YD

    Gavin Bowyer MB, BCh, MChir, FRCS(Orth) (Consultant in Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery Trauma and Orthopaedic Directorate, Directorate of Orthopaedics) (Consultant in Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery Trauma and Orthopaedic Directorate, Directorate of Orthopaedics)

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MacFarlane, C. (2002). Aviation Medicine Aspects. In: Ryan, J., Mahoney, P.F., Greaves, I., Bowyer, G. (eds) Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0215-1_14

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