Historic aeromedical perspective on left bundle branch block.

Abstract

Military aviators represent a very highly trained, expensive personnel resource. It is incumbent upon the military medical care systems to manage the health aspects of this resource as wisely as possible. This can best be accomplished through a combination of preventive medicine and health promotion oriented clinical care coupled with epidemiologically sound aeromedical standards which ensure that flying safety and mission completion will not be compromised. Epidemiologically sound aeromedical standards, in most cases, can be formulated only through responsible clinical aeromedical research and investigation which is performed within the population for which the aeromedical standards are intended.