Aerospace applications of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring

Abstract

The authors have been involved in the clinical testing, verification and use of the P-II and P-III “pressurometers” from their earliest days. One of the authors is in the NASA space program and as part of our investigation of the behavior of normal blood pressure in a variety of circumstances, made a series of recordings while flying high performance jet AirCraft A/C and for comparison, while a passenger in civil transport A/C. He also made a series of recordings during space flight on the NASA Shuttle. Excerpts from these are shown to illustrate an individual’s BP response to the aerospace environment.