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Telepaediatric support for a field hospital in Chechnya
Published in Richard Wootton, Nivritti G. Patil, Richard E. Scott, Kendall Ho, Telehealth in the Developing World, 2019
Boris A. Kobrinskiy, Vladimir I. Petlakh
The process of equipping field hospitals with mobile telemedicine units continues. A small Q-band satellite station, developed by Web Media Service, successfully passed testing in 2007. This allows data transfer at 128 kbit/s, i.e. at almost the same rate as via ground communication lines.5 Mobile telemedicine units have been developed for the needs of space medicine.17 During the missions of the US Space Shuttle, a mobile set of medical devices for ear, nose and throat and skin imaging, electrocardiography, blood oxygen saturation level, and heart and lung sound auscultation was used.18 Similar equipment might be used by mobile teams for disaster medicine.
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Published in Anton Sebastian, A Dictionary of the History of Medicine, 2018
Space Medicine Related to physiological and health problems arising out of exploration of space beyond Earth’s atmosphere. Interest started with H.G. Armstrong’s paper which appeared in the United States Armed Forces Medical Journal in 1959. In the same year C.A. Roos produced a bibliography of 446 references. A summary of physiological requirements of man in a sealed cabin was given by R.M. Fenno in 1954. The pathology of boredom was published by W. Heron in 1957. A paper on Potable water recycled from human urine by J. Sendroy and H.A. Collison appeared in 1958. The implications of radiation in space flight was studied independently by W.H. Langham and H.J. Schaefer in 1959.
The Case for Space Sexology
Published in The Journal of Sex Research, 2023
S. Dubé, M. Santaguida, D. Anctil, L. Giaccari, J. Lapierre
Despite that, the spokesperson for NASA’s Johnson Space Center, Bill Jeffs, publicly declared: “We don’t study sexuality in space, and we don’t have any studies ongoing with that. If that’s your specific topic, there’s nothing to discuss” (Bryner, 2008). In 2021, this perspective has not changed: space organizations seem to omit the subject of intimacy and sexuality or assume that it is a nonissue (Koerth, 2017; Layendecker & Pandya, 2019; Wanjek, 2020). Specifically, to date, the challenges related to making spacelife human-compatible are mostly addressed by the fields of Bioastronautics, Astronautical Hygiene, and Space Medicine (Cain, 2011; Clément, 2011; Longnecker & Molins, 2006; Marcviacq & Bessone, 2009). However, none of them has directly, nor comprehensively, addressed the sexological realities of human life in space and the few scholars who have raised this issue have yet to provide a research program framework to study these realities (Layendecker, 2016; Noonan, 1998). This situation is untenable and counterproductive to our long-term space endeavors. Hence, here we aim to make a case for space sexology as a scientific field and research program.
Latest knowledge about changes in the proteome in microgravity
Published in Expert Review of Proteomics, 2022
Herbert Schulz, Sebastian M. Strauch, Peter Richter, Markus Wehland, Marcus Krüger, Jayashree Sahana, Thomas J. Corydon, Petra Wise, Ronni Baran, Michael Lebert, Daniela Grimm
Biofabrication in space is currently a hot topic in the field of space STEM. Microgravity induces 3D growth of adherent growing benign and malignant cells. This way, it supports the biofabrication of organoids of more complex geometries. Investigations of the proteome of biofabricated organoids and the detection of target proteins are useful for cancer research and regenerative medicine on Earth and for deep space manned missions [119]. The use of organoids and proteomics studies of these 3D constructs in gravitational biology and space medicine will solve many important issues, such as the µg-effect on function and morphology of human tissues, the influence of cosmic radiation, and the study of the regenerative potential of human tissues [119]. Studies of organoids under space conditions are also very relevant for drug development, cancer, and stem cell research, with benefits for Earth.
Persistent Globe Flattening in Astronauts following Long-Duration Spaceflight
Published in Neuro-Ophthalmology, 2021
Thomas H. Mader, C. Robert Gibson, Michael R. Barratt, Neil R. Miller, Prem S. Subramanian, Hanspeter E. Killer, William J. Tarver, Ashot E. Sargsyan, Kathleen Garcia, Stephen F. Hart, Larry A. Kramer, Roy Riascos, Tyson J. Brunstetter, William Lipsky, Peter Wostyn, Andrew G. Lee
In a 2011 report, the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Space Medicine Division documented neuro-ophthalmic findings in seven astronauts after long duration space flight (LDSF) on the International Space Station (ISS).1 These findings included optic disc swelling, choroidal folds, posterior globe flattening (GF), cotton wool spots, optic nerve sheath (ONS) distention and hyperopic shifts in refraction. The term, “Space flight Associated Neuro-ocular Syndrome” (SANS) is currently used to describe these findings.2 Development of GF has been documented in 12 out of 52 (23%) astronauts following LDSF.3 We previously reported an astronaut with mild bilateral GF, documented by orbital ultrasound, occurring only 10 days into a space flight.4