S-014: PANEL: A PREMATURE OR TRAUMATIC ENTRY INTO THIS WORLD - SHOULD IT PRECLUDE ENTRY INTO AIR AND SPACE?

摘要

PANEL OVERVIEW: The rates of preterm birth has increased in all countries over the past 20 years with approximately 1 in 10 of the world's babies being delivered preterm. With the advent of medical advances such as the use of surfactant, overall survivability of preemies has also increased and many are now reaching adulthood. In addition, of every 1,000 infants born in the United States, 6 to 8 of them are born with a birth injury.This panel presents several cases illustrating the importance of asking about birth history during flight physical evaluations as premature birth and traumatic birth history require further evaluation and testing as this population is at risk for multi-organ system complications (pulmonary, ophthalmologic, neurologic and psychiatric) in adulthood that impose aeromedical risks. In the first presentation, we will discuss a patient that did not fully disclose being born premature that upon further investigation was found to have several of the co-morbidities associated with prematurity that will be discussed in the other panels.