[Immuno-physiological and hematological aspects of flight certification examination].
Aviakosm Ekolog Med
Medical Army Academy, Saint-Petersburg.
Published: December 1996
Revision of immunophysiological and hematological approaches to medical examination of flight personnel is the focus of this paper. Basing on literary data and results of their own investigations, the authors demonstrate the linkage between occupational impacts on flyers and alterations in the function of specific and non-specific body defense systems. Potential areas for updating flight certification examination procedure, i.e. development of flyers blood and resistance data bank, elaboration of objective immunophysiological and hematological criteria for assessing body response to standard functional tests, comprehensive evaluation of human reaction to exogenic agents and delineation of patterns of correlation between blood and anti-body indices, and other body systems.
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