{"title":"Travelling in aeroplane with medical conditions.","authors":"Kiran Kumar Singal, Neerja Singal, Ram Gopal Sharma, Parveen Gupta","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Air travel has become so common these days that about one billion people travel in one year. A few number of the persons travelling by air have suffered or are suffering from one or more medical conditions which may increase risk to passenger himself. There may be additional risk to copassengers, crew of aircraft or safety of aircraft may be compromised. The present article evaluates different medical conditions from pregnancy to cardiovascular diseases in relation to the air travel.</p>","PeriodicalId":17244,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Indian Medical Association","volume":"112 2","pages":"113-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2014-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of the Indian Medical Association","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"Medicine","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Air travel has become so common these days that about one billion people travel in one year. A few number of the persons travelling by air have suffered or are suffering from one or more medical conditions which may increase risk to passenger himself. There may be additional risk to copassengers, crew of aircraft or safety of aircraft may be compromised. The present article evaluates different medical conditions from pregnancy to cardiovascular diseases in relation to the air travel.
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The Journal of the Indian Medical association, popularly known as JIMA, an indexed (in index medicus) monthly journal, has the largest circulation (over 1.75 lakh Copies per month) of all the indexed and other medical journals of India and abroad. This journal is also available in microfilm through Bell & Howels, USA. The founder leaders of this prestigious journal include Late Sir Nilratan Sircar, Dr Bidhan Chandra Roy, Dr Kumud Sankar Ray and other scholars and doyens of the medical profession. It started in the pre-independence era (1930) with only 122 doctors.