Aviation Medicine
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- Both grounding and clearance notices are considered what?
- Medical recommendations
- Officially all aviation-designated personnel are removed from or restored to flying dutues by who?
- The CO of the unit
- To notify all individuals concerned that the named aircrew member is now medically cleared and recommended for duties involving flight
- Clearance Notice ("up chit")
- NAVMED 6410/2
- Clearance Notice
- To notify all individuals concerned that the named aircrew member is no longer medically recommended for flying duties
- Grounding Notice ("down chit")
- NAVMED 6410/1
- Grounding Notice
- What is on of the responsibilties of the IDC with aircraft mishaps
- Search for survivors and treat all casualities first
- When issuing "downchits" or "up chits" and original and 2 copies goes where?
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Original to CO
1st copy to OPS
2nd copy to SMDR files - The IDC or MO who signs a "down chit" must immediately start doing what?
- solving the proplem or the underlying problem
- Any crew membner who has been grounded for longer than 10 days willnot get an " up chit" without having been given what?
- physical exam by FS or AMO
- What must a MO or IDC obtain to issue a clearance notice
- concurrence from the Flight Surgeon
- What covers units and locations without aviation medicine trained personnel?
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NAVMED P117 Chap 15-65
BUMED 6410.5 - How do you prepare Carbon Monoxide specimens?
- Fill the tube al full as possible to prevent air being sucked in
- When collecting an ETOH how do you prep the PT?
- with soap and water and label Blood Alcohol.
- After a mishap what labs are drawn?
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Blood Alcohol (ETOH)
Carbon Monoxide
Hemoglobin
Hematacrit
Aliquot - How many labs are drawn?
- 7
- The IDC will corridinate with members of the aviation medical board in the collection of labeled sketches and photgraphs of crash site to include what?
-
Crash Path
Point of impact
Wreckage
Fatalities - Documentation of grounding or clearance will be noted in the members health record on what?
-
SF 600
NAVMED 6150/2 (medical abstract) - Information and details required from survivors must cover what time frame
-
last 72 hrs
*Food & drinks
hrs of sleep
and activities - How much urine is collected?
- 75cc
- What color top tube is carbon monoxide
- Lavender (purple)
- What color top tube is ETOH?
- Gray
- What type of UA is ordered?
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Routine UA
* save remainder of future tests ordered by FS - What specimens are stored in reefer/freezer and for how long?
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Serum (red top)
Urine (10+cc's)
for 90 days - Where are the specimens sent? and which ones?
-
AFIP (armed forces institute of pathology)
ETOH, CO, & Drug screen (urine) - Different people react differently to the same medication drug. Also may occur with the same person reacting differently to the same drug on different occasions
- idiosyncratic effect
- May be either predictable or unpredictable. Although this is more prone to being unpredictable in nature, such as drowsiness and increased BP.
- Side effect
- Such as relief of person's cold SX
- intended effect
- What indtruction specifies that NAval aircrewmen may not use meds unless granted permission by a Flight surgeon
- OPNAVINST 3750.6
- Depression of the CNS with high does as well as decreases reastion time
- Cough drops
- Nasal decongestants also do what?
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cause:
Tachycardia
Diploplia
Lissitude - Prolonged use of what increases blood pressure and pulse
- nasal decongestants
- Waht is duffucult to control because of their easy availibility and individuals utilization of self-treatment
- Over the Counter drugs
- When two drugs interact with each other resulting in a larger effect than the sum of their individual effect
- Synergistic effect
- due to pressure in aircraft flying above waht altitude may cause what?
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8,000ft
hypoxia - Max altitude for someone with a pneumothorax
- 500ft
- What must be included in a MEDVAC message
- accounting data
- What becomes crusty when exposed to 100% O2?
- Petroleum Jelly based products
- Local allergic reactions are not uncommon. Can result in Rapid swelling of the oral pharynx and respiratory tract, which can result in decreased air. What medication?
- Throat Lozenges
- Largest Litter capacity helo
- CH53
- What is also known as the Sea Knight
- CH 46
- What helos are used for MEDVACS
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CH 53
CH 46 - What goes with a PT on MEDVAC?
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Pay Rec
Dental Rec
Service Rec
Health Rec
***NOT training Record - What info must be included with a PT who is taking medications on a MEDVAC?
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name
rank
SS
generic names of medications
dosages - Who has say so over aircraft?
- Airboss
- Who is responsible for MEDVAC?
- CO
- What type of side effect does Asprin have?
- May increase sweating