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ArticleJournal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology2019

Airplane pilot flight performance on 21 maneuvers in a flight simulator under varying carbon dioxide concentrations.

Joseph G Allen, Piers MacNaughton, Jose Guillermo Cedeno-Laurent, Xiaodong Cao, Skye Flanigan, Jose Vallarino, Francisco Rueda, Deborah Donnelly-McLay, John D Spengler

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Article in Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Joseph G AllenDepartment of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA. JGAllen@hsph.harvard.edu.
Piers MacNaughtonDepartment of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
Jose Guillermo Cedeno-LaurentDepartment of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
Xiaodong CaoDepartment of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
Skye FlaniganDepartment of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
Jose VallarinoDepartment of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
Francisco RuedaAero Leasing Training and Investments, Inc, Miami, FL, USA.
Deborah Donnelly-McLayDepartment of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
John D SpenglerDepartment of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.

Funding

Training Program in Environmental EpidemiologyT32ES007069 · NIEHS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (SCH OF PUBLIC HLTH) · PI LADEN, FRANCINE · 1985 to 2024
$13.9M
NIEHS NIH HHS T32 ES007069
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundRecent studies suggest that carbon dioxide has an impact on cognitive function performance of office workers at concentrations previously thought to be benign (1000-2500 ppm). The only available data for CO

methodsWe recruited 30 active commercial airline pilots to fly three 3-h flight segments in an FAA-approved flight simulator with each segment at a different CO

resultsCompared to segments at a CO DISCUSSION: Examiner rating captured a wider range of performance indicators than output from the flight simulator, which can characterize only a few quantitative aspects of the flight performance. More broadly, these findings suggest that there is a direct effect of carbon dioxide on performance, independent of ventilation, with implications for many other indoor environments that routinely experience CO

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AviationComputer SimulationPilotsTask Performance and AnalysisAdultCarbon DioxideCognitionFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedCarbon DioxideAirplanesCarbon dioxidePerformancePilots

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