Flying with respiratory disease

Respiration

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 161-170

  Tzani, Panagiota ^a   Pisi, Giovanna ^a   Aiello, Marina ^a   Olivieri, Dario ^a   Chetta, Alfredo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Air travel, respiratory diseases; Fitness for flight assessment; Hypobaric hypoxia; Hypoxia altitude simulation test

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN; SALBUTAMOL; STEROID;

ALTITUDE; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ASTHMA; AVIATION; CARDIOPULMONARY FUNCTION; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COR PULMONALE; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; FITNESS; FLIGHT; HUMAN; HYPOBARISM; HYPOXIA; LUNG CYST; LUNG MINUTE VOLUME; OXYGEN BREATHING; OXYGENATION; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SIMULATION; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; TRAVEL; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES;

AEROSPACE MEDICINE; ALTITUDE; HUMANS; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES;

EID: 77954776151     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000313425     Document Type: Review

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