The workshop’s work took place on Wednesday, June 5, at the Experimental Flight Center in Pratica di Mare
The event, which was limited to a number of professionals including doctors, psychologists, audiometric technicians, nurses and personnel from inter-service health care, took place in the “de Bernardi” classroom at the Center. The workshop was organized in collaboration with the Institute of Advanced Training in Aeronautical and Space Medicine, the Sapienza University of Rome, the “Celio” Military Policlinic, the San Camillo Hospital in Rieti, the Office of the Inspectorate for Aviation of the Naval Forces and the Aerospace Medicine Institutes in Milan and Rome. The event’s program included the division of the topics discussed into thematic areas and covered multiple aspects such as the flight environment and all forms of motion sickness, with particular reference to the physiological mechanisms responsible for space sickness and simulator sickness. The speakers discussed topics related to clinical psychophysiology and the therapy, conventional and unconventional, of chinetosis.
The work concluded in the afternoon with the discussion of some clinical cases and a session dedicated to practical exercises.
For the purposes of Continuing Medical Education (CME), within the scope of Residency Training, the Ministry of Health has assigned 8.5 credits to each participant in the event.
