FAINTING AND FLYING
Abstract
Romano and Engel1 stated that encephalograms taken during actual loss of consciousness may be classified in three groups: the emotional type of fainting, the epileptic type and the syncopal or vasodepressor type. Rook similarly classified 500 cases of impairment of consciousness in pilots and air crew studied at the Central Medical Establishment, Royal Air Force. He considered the pathologic processes that led to the attack to result from three separate mechanisms: disturbances of...