Ventricular pre-excitation.
Pilots and new applicants with asymptomatic 'safe' WPW syndrome should be allowed to fly but not as pilot in sole command. Professional pilots with tachyarrhythmia related to a pre-excitation syndrome should usually be disqualified . Personnel who have undergone successful surgical treatment by ablation of an accessory pathway could be considered for recertification to fly but drug therapy is at present unacceptable.
D000337:Aerospace Medicine; D001281:Atrial Fibrillation / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D001282:Atrial Flutter / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D001283:Atrioventricular Node / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008004:Licensure; D010560:Personnel Selection; D012955:Societies, Medical; D013614:Tachycardia, Paroxysmal / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D006113:United Kingdom; D014481:United States; D014927:Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome / Q000150:complications* / Q000209:etiology