Can We Perform Surgery in Space? - Science In The Extremes
Dr. George Pantalos and his team pioneer futuristic surgical tools for operations on astronauts and test them on NASA's zero-gravity plane. Science In The ...
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What happens if an astronaut gets sick or injured in space? On the moon, you're over three days away, or on Mars you could be as much as eight months away. Not everybody on a crew to Mars is going to be a physician. You have to be able to operate autonomously. Dr. George Pantalos and the team at University of Louisville are working with NASA, Carnegie Mellon University, and Baylor College of Medicine to develop novel ways to perform complicated procedures in near-zero gravity. When you're working in weightlessness, it completely changes how you interact with your instruments, how you interact with your supplies and equipment, how you interact with your patient. Whoever is providing the care has to be somehow or another fixed in place, as does the patient, so that you can interact ...
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What happens if an astronaut gets sick or injured in space? On the moon, you're over three days away, or on Mars you could be as much as eight months away. Not everybody on a crew to Mars is going to be a physician. You have to be able to operate autonomously. Dr. George Pantalos and the team at University of Louisville are working with NASA, Carnegie Mellon University, and Baylor College of Medicine to develop novel ways to perform complicated procedures in near-zero gravity. When you're working in weightlessness, it completely changes how you interact with your instruments, how you interact with your supplies and equipment, how you interact with your patient. Whoever is providing the care has to be somehow or another fixed in place, as does the patient, so that you can interact ...
