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A Strategic Approach to Medical Care for Exploration MissionsExploration missions will present significant new challenges to crew health, including effects of variable gravity environments, limited communication with Earth-based personnel for diagnosis and consultation for medical events, limited resupply, and limited ability for crew return. Providing health care capabilities for exploration class missions will require system trades be performed to identify a minimum set of requirements and crosscutting capabilities, which can be used in design of exploration medical systems. Medical data, information, and knowledge collected during current space missions must be catalogued and put in formats that facilitate querying and analysis. These data are used to inform the medical research and development program through analysis of risk trade studies between medical care capabilities and system constraints such as mass, power, volume, and training. Medical capability as a quantifiable variable is proposed as a surrogate risk metric and explored for trade space analysis that can improve communication between the medical and engineering approaches to mission design. The resulting medical system design approach selected will inform NASA mission architecture, vehicle, and subsystem design for the next generation of spacecraft.
Document ID
20160011168
Acquisition Source
Johnson Space Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Canga, Michael A.
(NASA Johnson Space Center Houston, TX, United States)
Shah, Ronak V.
(Texas Univ. Medical Branch Houston, TX, United States)
Mindock, Jennifer A.
(KBRwyle Houston, TX, United States)
Antonsen, Erik L.
(NASA Johnson Space Center Houston, TX, United States)
Date Acquired
September 9, 2016
Publication Date
September 26, 2016
Subject Category
Aerospace Medicine
Report/Patent Number
JSC-CN-37410
IAC-16,E3,6,11,x35540
Meeting Information
Meeting: International Astronautical Congress (IAC)
Location: Guadalajara
Country: Mexico
Start Date: September 26, 2016
End Date: September 30, 2016
Sponsors: International Astronautical Federation
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
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