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More and more of us now fly regularly as part of our usual routine, (in 2012 approximately 220 million passengers flew from UK airports), yet many doctors are not fully aware of the changes that take place in our bodies when we fly. Lack of understanding of the health impacts of flying could lead to poor advice – sometimes over precautionary where little risk exists and sometimes less safe when already seriously ill people do not understand the increased risk of taking long flights. And what does and should happen when people are taken seriously ill on aeroplanes?
As King’s College London appointed its first ever professor of Aerospace Medicine, the SMC invited him in to discuss why we need such a post, why doctors, including GPs, need to be better trained and what does happen to our bodies while in the skies.
Speaker:
Professor David Gradwell BSc PhD MB ChB FRCP FFOM(Hon) DAvMed FRAeS, Professor of Aerospace Medicine at the Centre for Human & Aerospace Physiological Sciences, King’s College London