Aeromedical

Decompression sickness (DCS) describes a condition characterizedby a variety of symptoms resulting from exposure to low barometricpressures that cause inert gases (mainly nitrogen), normally dissolvedin body fluids and tissues, to come out of physical solution andform bubbles. DCS can occur during exposure to altitude (altitudeDCS) or during ascent from depth (mining or diving). The firstdocumented […]

NOTE: AVweb includes the full text of the NTSB’s probable cause report on Flight 554 in Adobe’s PDF format (if you don’t already have one, PDF readers are available from https://www.adobe.com). “Monovision” contact lenses, actually a misnomer, was listed as a probablecause of the MD-88 accident that occurred at LaGuardia October, 1996, bythe NTSB. Of […]