Mr Matthieu Komorowski, Clinical Research Fellow in Intensive Care and PhD student in Surgery and Cancer, spoke at the Euroanaesthesia Annual Conference about the unusual and challenging problem of how to perform emergency medical procedures during space missions.
You can find out more about this fascinating research through the following media coverage:
- Medical emergency in space – What to do about a heart attack in space? (Times Live)
- Astronauts should learn to print 3D equipment (Telegraph)
- Far away and beyond – Emergency Medicine in the space environment (European Society of Anaesthesiology)
- Heart emergencies on planes need better treatment, say doctors (BBC)
- Mars mission astronauts must prepare for non-survivable illnesses or injuries (Wired)
- Mars Astronauts Must Prepare For ‘Non-Survivable’ Illnesses (Huffington Post)
- Manned missions to Moon, Mars may face medical emergencies (Financial Express)
- First aid secrets of the astronauts (Cosmos Magazine)