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(Chest. 1953;23:98-101.)
© 1953 American College of Chest Physicians

The Selection of Patients with Cardio-pulmonary Diseases for Air Travel

BURGESS GORDON M.D., F.C.C.P.1

1 President, Woman's Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The transportation by air of patients with cardio-pulmonary disease is satisfactory and usually agreeable, providing the distance is sufficient to justify the long trip to and from airports. In any event, traveling should be in pressurized cabins only, since the higher barometric pressure of the ordinary types may cause symptoms of oxygen-lack. The contraindications to air travel are cystic disease of the lung, recurrent spontaneous pneumothorax, high pressure artificial pneumothorax, acute upper respiratory tract infections with exacerbations of chronic lung disease, manifest coronary insufficiency, failure of the right side of the heart, and recent hemoptysis.






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