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20880805

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
41
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-9-30
pubmed:abstractText
Due to the stiffening requirements of security measures at the airports, prevention of air-travel related illnesses have become more difficult. The backlash effects of restrictions (e.g. fluid and movement restrictions) can trigger or even improve pathophysiological processes. The most advanced security check methods, the full body scan, besides ethical and moral considerations, may induce yet unknown pathological processes. We face the similar problem with the traveller, who becomes ill or injured during the trip. In this case, repatriation is often required, which is usually accomplished by commercial airlines. If patient should be transported by stretcher, it is also available on regular flight, but in this case he/she must be accompanied by a medical professional. This solution raises much more security problem: not only the sick person and the medical team, but even their medical equipments and medicines have to be checked. Due to the lack of standardised regulations the security staff solves the problem by various attempts from emphatic approach till refusal. For these reasons, a clear and exact regulation is needed, which must be based upon medical experts' opinion, and should deal not only with the flight security but with the patient's security, as well. This regulation can cease the patients and their medical accompanied persons' to be defencelessness against local authorities and security services. The same is true for handicapped persons. Author suggests solutions for the problem, balancing between flight security and the patient's "sickurity".
pubmed:language
hun
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0030-6002
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
10
pubmed:volume
151
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1702-7
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
[Are the flight security measures good for the patients? The "sickurity" problem].
pubmed:affiliation
SOS Hungary Orvosi Szolgálat, Budapest. peter.felkai@soshungary.hu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract