Why the study?
Does exposure to positive acceleration cause electrocardiographic changes in humans?
Does exposure to positive acceleration cause electrocardiographic changes in humans?
The paper describes the use of a man-carrying centrifuge to study electrocardiographic and physiological changes during positive acceleration for aerospace medicine.
Centrifuge models enable controlled study of acceleration effects on ECG; leaves open whether positive G-forces cause clinically meaningful changes.
The effects of accelerative forces on man are of considerable importance in high performance aircraft. Should manned space travel become possible then one of the many medical problems will be the reaction of man to varying gravitational forces. To study the effects of positive acceleration (or g) a man-carrying centrifuge has recently been installed at the Institute of Aviation Medicine, Farnborough. By means of this machine, human beings can be exposed to controlled accelerative forces and their physiological reactions analysed in the laboratory.
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Browne et al. (1959) studied this question.
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