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Does flight duration during combat missions affect sympathovagal balance during recovery in military pilots?
Does flight duration during combat missions affect sympathovagal balance during recovery in military pilots?
Autonomic balance modulation differs by combat mission duration, with long flights inducing a post-flight increase in parasympathetic modulation likely related to decreased alertness, and short flights inducing a sympathetic increase due to stress.
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Flight duration may influence post-mission autonomic recovery and alertness in pilots; hypothesis-generating for duration-specific interventions.
Dussault et al. (2009) studied this question.
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