French residents are inadequately trained in the prevention of complications related to air travel

Medical issues related to air travel are estimated at about 350 annually, corresponding to 1/14,000 –40,000 passengers [1]. Specific conditions of air travel – biophysical in particular – are responsible for most of these medical issues [2,3]. In healthy subjects, the physiological impact of these situations is usually asymptomatic [1]. But air travel can put some patients (i.e. patients wit h underlying conditions and multimorbid patients) at risk of medical emergencies [2]. General practitioners (GPs) are usually the first physicians consulted before air travel [4,5].
Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease - Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Source Type: research