Dr. Russell B. Rayman

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  During the 1990s, overseas airlines began carrying more sophisticated equipment, and pressure increased for U.S.-based airlines to follow, said Dr. Russell Rayman, executive director of the Aerospace Medical Association, which has roughly 3,000 members including physicians, research scientists and flight nurses.
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  The oxygen that flows into masks stored above individual seats is not medical oxygen and would not suffice for a passenger in an in-flight medical emergency, said Rayman.
  
  Flight attendants have portable bottles of oxygen that they are to use for themselves in the event of a cabin decompression.
  
  "It could be used if there is a medical emergency on board, but that's not its purpose," he said.
  
  More oxygen is stored in the cockpit for the pilots.
  
  Though MedAire keeps track of its clients' medical air incidents, Rayman criticized the FAA's failure to do so.
  
  "There is no central repository where these things can be archived and then retrieved," he said.

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  Russell Rayman, executive director of the Aerospace Medical Association, the primary medical advisers to the airlines, says he has tried to create a database of medical emergencies, but airlines have not cooperated."Airlines don't want to tell anybody about their medical problems in flight," he says.

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  Russell B. Rayman, the executive director of the Aerospace Medical Association in Alexandria, Virginia, responds:
  
  A body drifting in space would probably be in a desiccated state similar to that of the mummified bodies people sometimes find in the desert.In space there is no humidity and no microorganisms which, in combination, cause decomposition of human tissue on Earth.The very low temperatures in space would provide further protection for tissue-unless the body were close to the sun, in which case the intense radiation would incinerate it.Therefore, an unsuited human body in space would likely remain recognizable for a long while, although there would be extreme drying because moisture from the body would escape readily into the vacuum.Over time, it is likely that micro-meteors would strike the body.A rock the size of a grain of sand would hit with the force of a bullet; enough hits and the body would disintegrate.

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  Russell Rayman, director of the Aerospace Medical Association, agrees.He and other professionals say conditions are ripe for more confrontations between airline workers and their customers.

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  The fact that no case of airline-acquired meningitis has been reported doesn't mean one hasn't happened, says Dr. Russell Rayman, executive director of the Aerospace Medical Association in Alexandria, Va.
  
  "There's no way of knowing the frequency of illness that occurs on airlines.It's not reported, and the person may get sick days or weeks post-flight and would not necessarily associate it with the flight itself," says Rayman, whose group represents physicians and scientists involved in civilian and military air and space travel.
  
  "It would be nice to have some idea of all the medical events that happen on our air carriers," says Rayman.Individual airlines wouldn't have to be identified for such a system to work, he says.
  
  Airlines lately have been linked to everything from respiratory infections to "economy class syndrome," a controversial concept that says lack of movement during prolonged flying causes potentially deadly blood clots.Rayman says airplanes do indeed pose an infection risk, but only because they're confined spaces, like trains, taxicabs and military barracks.
  
  "We believe that the transmission [of disease], if it occurs, does not occur though the ventilation system but rather from person-to-person contact.That's possible anywhere," he says.

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  While no formal statistics are kept, anecdotal evidence suggests that the condition is rare and fatalities even rarer, says Dr. Russell Rayman, executive director of the Aerospace Medical Association.

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  "We tolerate those stresses very well," says Dr. Russell Rayman, executive director of the Aerospace Medical Association, an organization representing members in the fields of aviation, space and environmental medicine.
  
  But people with pre-existing illnesses, such as lung disease, can be affected by reduced oxygen levels and need to be careful.They should be cleared for flight by a physician, Rayman says.
  
  His advice is to keep your schedule as normal as possible.Give yourself plenty of time to get to the airport, get up and walk around during long flights, and drink liquids as you normally would.Humidity in aircraft cabins is usually lower than what you're used to, and that can cause the skin and eyes to feel dry.But low humidity doesn't cause dehydration, and there's no need to drink extra water."I think it's one of those myths," Rayman says.

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  Dr. Russell Rayman, director of the Aerospace Medical Association, said infection is highly unlikely."I have not seen any reports in our literature regarding the laundering and cleaning of headsets and blankets, and any association with illness," Rayman said.

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  The Aerospace Medical Association has called for mandating better record-keeping of medical emergencies in flight, said the group's executive director Russell Rayman.

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  On the other hand, the service says nearly 100 fatal crashes have been blamed on pilot fatigue, an Air Force spokeswoman said."To my knowledge, there's never been an accident or untoward incident due to these medications," said Dr. Russell Rayman, executive director of the Aerospace Medical Association and a retired Air Force flight surgeon.Even so, go-pill use has figured in at least two high-profile incidents.

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