Maintaining Peak Performance: Clues You Can Use
Table of Contents
Maintaining Peak Performance: Clues You Can Use
Introductions
Credits
Causes of Subtle Impairment in Healthy Pilots
Attitude Sometimes a Cause of Accidents
Caveats
Fatigue
Elementary Physiology
Hypoxia What Killed Payne Stewart, et al.
How to Experience Hypoxia
Altitude, Oxygen, and Performance
Clues to Hypoxia
Time of Effective Performance ("Useful Consciousness") Healthy, resting, fully oxygenated aeronaut
Hypoxia Example ASRS Reporter, January, 2000
Measure Hypoxia
The Bends (Decompression sickness)
Cold
Heat
Dehydration
How is Water Lost?
Clues to Dehydration
Thirst The signal of the osmostat (Your hypothalamus detects your blood's water content: its osmolality)
Estimating water needs
Overhydration
Limits of Hydration
Sweat
Sweat Contents
Dehydration vs Volume depletion
How Much Salt is Enough
Some Unknowns about Sweat-Salt Loss
Sodium Content and Osmolarity of Beverages vs. blood and sweat
Salty Food Creates a Water Deficit
Conclusion:
Water Conservation Preventing Unnecessary Water Loss
Creating Extra Water Needs
Salty Food Makes Extra Urine
Fatigue as a Clue
Fluid Egress
Cockpit Waste Management Strategies
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