Noise, a Risk for Heart in Airplane Pilots

Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM)

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Pericarditis

Treatments: Procedure: cardiovascular valuation; Other: exposure to occupational noise

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01063582

FMendezV001

Details and patient eligibility

About

Study of noise generated by military-type aircraft and equipment maintenance in relation to non-auditory effects that impact with the body of the crew and ground staff can cause cardiac pathologies

Hypothesis of work: The pilots and the technical personnel of maintenance that work before the exhibition of noise generated by planes hunt F-16, or equipments of maintenance of the same ones, present major risk of a cardiac affectation, which demonstrates in changes in the normal pace of the heart, in his function of bomb or in hemodynamic conditions.

Full description

The work area military airport is characterized by low frequency noise in sound pressure levels exceeding 100 dB, smashing into the body of pilots and ground staff.

It found variations in the thickness of the pericardium and deviation measures ejection fraction

Enrollment: 16 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 26 to 37 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• exposure to noise from military aircraft

Exclusion criteria

• inactive personal or vacation

Trial design

16 participants in 2 patient groups

fighter pilots f-16

Description:

This group is made up of pilots from the F-16 Venezuelan military air force stationed in the Base Vicente Landaeta Gil de Barquisimeto, Lara State.

Treatment:

Other: exposure to occupational noise

Procedure: cardiovascular valuation

aircraft maintenance personnel f-16

Description:

Staff responsible for the preparation of aircraft for the flight and maintenance in the hangar at the airbase Vicente Landaeta Gil de Barquisimeto, Lara. Venezuela

Treatment:

Other: exposure to occupational noise

Procedure: cardiovascular valuation