DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
Disorientation
Spatial disorientation
Spatial disorientation is a condition in which an aircraft pilot's perception of direction does not agree with reality. While it can be brought on by disturbances or disease within the vestibular system, it is more typically a temporary condition resulting from flight into poor weather conditions with low or no visibility. Under these conditions the pilot may be deprived of an external visual horizon, which is critical to maintaining a correct sense of up and down while flying. A pilot who enters such conditions will quickly lose spatial orientation if there has been no training in flying with reference to instruments...
Disorientation - List of case studies
- Visual disturbances of unknown etiology
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irritability besides a sensation of confusion and disorientation . The patient reports that for the last 17 years, because of ... diffuse heat, dizziness, irritability, confusion, disorientation, tension, emotional stress ...
- List of Symptoms
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Disinhibition Disordered sleep pattern Disorientation Disorientation in autobiographical parameters Disorientation in space ...
- Anaplastic Astrocytoma in the left temporal lobe
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the patient reported episodes of mental confusion and disorientation for several months. He then underwent a CAT scan of the brain ... Symptoms : loss of consciousness, mental confusion, disorientation, epileptic seizures, moments of loss of contact, paroxysmal ...