Issues in Internal Medicine
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چکیده
There are many significant internal medicine problems in aerospace medicine. Although discussing them all is beyond the scope of this chapter, the following topics have been selected because of their particular importance or frequency in aviation medicine. The emphasis will be on aeromedical significance, evaluation, and disposition rather than general medical diagnosis and treatment. This emphasis highlights aerospace medicine as preventive medicine--focusing on the preclinical detection of many problems, such as coronary artery disease, hypertension, and diabetes mellitus rather than the management of clinical disease. The key aeromedical issue in all of these problems is assessing the potential for sudden incapacitation in flight. The following issues will be discussed:
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