Ethics approval and consent to participate
The experiment was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Air Force General Hospital, all methods were carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations, and all subjects were clearly informed of the specific research content, precautions and possible technical risks, and signed the informed consent of the experiment book.
2.1 Study subjects
A total of 30 male fighter pilots with poor acceleration endurance (+ Gz endurance <4.0G / 10s) were selected from February 2021 to July 2021 in the Air Force Special Medical Center , age (26.20±4.20), height (174.39 ± 2.40) cm, weight (67.84 ± 5.35) kg, flight time (650.19 ± 510.77) h, no various basic diseases and genetic history, and daily physical training.Physical and mental health was proved by blood drawing testing, plate exercise test, heart ultrasound, abdominal ultrasound, chest, whole spine X-ray, and psychological evaluation.The experiment was approved by the hospital ethics committee, and clearly informed all subjects of the specific research content, precautions and possible technical risks, and signed an informed consent form for the experiment.
2.2 Hyperbaric oxygen pretreatment
The experiment was conducted in the HYPERbaric oxygen chamber (Model yC3800J-X, Yantai Binglun Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber Co., LTD.) of PLA General Hospital. The safety pressure window of HBOP is 1.5~3.0 Atmosphaera Absolutus (ATA), and 2.0 ATA and 2.5 ATA are more suitable pressure conditions, too low pressure will not produce HBOP effect [18].
HBOP scheme: using the multiplayer oxygen cabin, 3 times of oxygen inhalation HBOP scheme.After the subject enters the closed cabin door, the air is gradually pressurized to 2.5ATA for 10min, stabilized for 65min (30min 2, stop oxygen for 5min), and gradually to 1.3ATA within 10min and stay for 5min continue decompression for 5min and end exit..A total of 95min, once daily (fixed at 14:30-16:15 p. m.) for 3d continuously.
2.3 Lower body negative pressure endurance test
The lower body negative pressure endurance test can be used to check and predict a pilot's +GZ endurance. The subject will naturally sit in the lower body negative pressure chamber (XF-2008, Yantai Bingren Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber Co., LTD.), place the subject's iliac spine line below the negative pressure chamber, and inflate the sealing ring to seal it with the edge of the inlet and outlet of the chamber to ensure the sealing of the lower body negative pressure chamber.Stepwise increasing scheme is adopted, that is, the LBNP load increases successively from -20 mmHg(1min) to→30mmHg(3min) to →40mmHg(5 min) to→50mmHg (7 min). It is not the limit value to reach -50mmHg. It can also continue to achieve -70mmHg (9min), -80mmHg (11min), etc.During the test, subjects' subjective feelings and physical signs were questioned and closely observed. Meanwhile, the heart rate, blood pressure and respiration of the subjects were monitored by PM-800Express Mindray monitor. When the end point of endurance was reached, the negative pressure in the lower body negative pressure instrument was quickly removed to end the experiment. The endpoints of endurance were either of the following: ① Blood pressure suddenly dropped below 90/60 mmHg, ② The heart rate suddenly dropped 15 times, or less than 60 times /min, ③ The subjects complained of dizziness, palpitation, chest distress, nausea, pale face, cyanosis and other signs.
2.4 Acceleration endurance test
One of the most important factors affecting flight safety is the positive acceleration endurance of head and foot in centrifuge test, namely +GZ endurance. In this paper, acceleration endurance refers to +GZ endurance [19]. The centrifuge is amST-HC-4E human centrifuge of Air Force Special Medical Center (AMST Technology Company of Austria). The main arm length is 8.8m, and it can produce triaxial acceleration: longitudinal load is -5~+15GZ, lateral load is -6~+6Gy, and forward and backward load is -10 ~+10Gx. The maximum +GZ growth rate is 10 G/s. The cockpit is equipped with 1 red central light and 2 white peripheral lights to determine visual changes of subjects. Anti-charge oxygen supply equipment of J-XXB aircraft is adopted, including: TK-X protective helmet, YM-X pressurized oxygen supply mask, KH-X anti-charge suit, KT-X anti-regulator, YX-X oxygen system. Oxygen source pressure is 1 MPa.
Acceleration endurance was tested before and after the HBOP. The tests of +2Gz, +3Gz and +4Gz were carried out on the centrifuge respectively (the experiments were carried out from 8:30 am to 11:00 am on the same day). The growth rate of G value was 3G /s and the loading duration was 10 s. The pilot's peripheral light loss (PLL) or more than 75% reduction in the amplitude of ear pulse wave or the pilot's inability to continue the experiment for various reasons were used as the index to judge the end point of endurance.
2.5 The indicators
The subjects' lower body negative pressure endurance, centrifuge acceleration endurance and blood indexes were measured before and after hbo pretreatment. Lower body negative pressure endurance index includes: lower body negative pressure endurance time and cumulative stress index, Hemodynamic indexes include blood pressure (BP), heart rate (HR), venous blood indexes:blood lactic acid (BLA), hydrogen ion concentration, partial pressure of carbon dioxide (PCO2), partial pressure of oxygen (PO2), adrenal corticotropic hormone (ACTH). Centrifuge pass rate = Number of people who pass centrifuge test (4.0G / 10s)/Total number of people who participate in centrifuge test.
Cumulative stress index CSI[20] is used to reflect LBNP level, and the calculation is shown in Equation (1) :
Among them, N is the total number of subjects in this experiment, 30 people, Pi is the negative pressure level (mmHg), ti is the tolerance time (min) of each negative pressure level, the negative pressure level range is -80~-20 mmHg, the negative pressure Pressure level tolerance time 0~11 min.
The secretion of normal ACTH was in circadian rhythm, which was higher in the morning and lower in the afternoon and evening. In this experiment, blood drawing time was uniformly set at 8:00 a.m. to control experimental variables. A total of 2 blood samples were collected: ① On the first day of the experiment, 2 mL of elbow venous blood was taken from each subject under basic condition (fixed at 8:00 a.m. on the day of the experiment) before oxygen inhalation, and serum was centrifuged for detection of BLA, hydrogen ion concentration, PCO2, PO2 and ACTH content before HBOP by the Clinical Laboratory of Air Force Special Medical Center. ② After the last oxygen inhalation, venous blood was taken again at 8:00 the next day to detect the corresponding physiological indicators.
2.6 Statistical analysis
SPSS25.0 was used for statistical analysis, and all experimental data were expressed as mean ± standard deviation, indicating that the experimental data were in line with normal distribution. Paired T test, P<0.05 was used to compare the experimental data of normality test. 0.05 considered that the difference was statistically significant.