Medical recertification of pilots with prior COVID-19 infection
The Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Aerospace Medicine needs to maintain and update aeromedical certification guidance addressing a pilot’s fitness for duty after acute infection by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The Office of Aerospace Medicine aspires to use Evidence Based Risk Assessment (EBRA) as the foundation for aeromedical decision making. EBRA leverages the existing body of published clinical and population health research to generate suitable risk estimates to inform aeromedical decisions. This research project will carry out periodic reviews of the scientific literature from 2022 through 2025 to determine the post-acute infection recovery modes exhibited by the general U.S. population at least 18 years of age, and within each recovery mode, determine the risks of (1) progression of infection-related morbidity over a yearly certification period; (2) development of a potentially incapacitating medical condition; and (3) occupationally significant degradation in ability to perform a pilot’s safety sensitive functions. This project will also recommend risk-based guidelines for aeromedical evaluations based on recovery mode to include additional clinical or functional assessments relative to the proscribed standard aeromedical exam and aviation appropriate cut points for interpreting additional clinical or functional assessments.
Language
- English
Project
- Status: Programmed
- Funding: $300,000
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Sponsor Organizations:
Federal Aviation Administration Office of Aerospace Medicine
800 Independence Ave., SW
Washington, DC United States 20591 -
Managing Organizations:
Civil Aerospace Medical Institute-Federal Aviation Administration
P.O. Box 25082
Oklahoma City, OK United States 73125 -
Project Managers:
Tvaryanas, Anthony
- Start Date: 20220601
- Expected Completion Date: 20251220
- Actual Completion Date: 0
- USDOT Program: Aeromedical Research
- Subprogram: aviation safety
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Aviation medicine; Certification; COVID-19; Medical examinations and tests
- Subject Areas: Aviation; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01844453
- Record Type: Research project
- Source Agency: Federal Aviation Administration
- Files: RIP, USDOT
- Created Date: Apr 30 2022 3:31PM