Publication AbstractsEmergency Medical Kit for Commercial Airlines: An UpdateClaude Thibeault and the Air Transport Medicine Committee, Aerospace Medical AssociationAviat Space Environ Med 2002; 73:612-3 AbstractAs expected, the issue of medical kits for commercial airlines continues to attract attention, especially in light of the recent United States regulation on the subject. As promised in its first recommendation in 1998, the Air Transport Medicine (ATM) Committee has continued to monitor medical kit usage as well as pharmaceutical scientific developments and wishes to propose an update to its 1998 recommendation. Lists of contents are provided for emergency medical kits of two types: 1) those without defibrillator/monitor or monitor; and 2) those with defibrillator/monitor or monitor alone. Follow up and updates on this issue will be an ongoing task of the ATM Committee.Information on subscribing, and on obtaining copies of an article or of an entire issue. Table of Contents for Volume 73, Number 6 of the ASME journal.
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