Wiki source code of Amadee-20-VFR-eFAST
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| 1 | === Details === | ||
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| 3 | |**Acronym**|VFR-eFAST | ||
| 4 | |**Description**|The VFR-eFAST experiment aims to investigate the feasibility of having non-medical personnel, | ||
| 5 | in this case, analog astronauts, perform a focused ultrasonography of the abdomen and thorax. | ||
| 6 | |**Principal Investigator (PI)**|((( | ||
| 7 | Anton Ahlbäck | [[anton.ahlback@gmail.com>>mailto:anton.ahlback@gmail.com]] | ||
| 8 | ))) | ||
| 9 | |**Organisation** |Dep. of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Örebro Univ. Hospital, Sweden | ||
| 10 | |**Co-Investigators**|Jochen Hinkelbein, Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital of Cologne, | ||
| 11 | German Society of Aerospace Medicine, DGLRM; Munich, Germany | ||
| 12 | European Society of Aerospace Medicine, ESAM; Cologne, Germany | ||
| 13 | Kerpener str. 62, 50937 Cologne, Germany | ||
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| 15 | === Summary === | ||
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| 20 | Trauma on exploration class missions to Mars is considered one of the most important risks to mission and crew. Non- | ||
| 21 | invasive diagnostic tools such as ultrasonography are an important diagnostic part when attempting to identify | ||
| 22 | potentially life-threatening injuries to the thorax and abdomen. | ||
| 23 | Although it is expected that a crewed mission to Mars will have at least one trained medical professional, this might | ||
| 24 | not always be the case. There is also always a significant risk that the crew medical officer will be the one who is sick | ||
| 25 | or injured. Thus, the exam may need to be executed by individuals with minimal medical training. Also, at the time it | ||
| 26 | is needed, that training may be on an estimate 2 – 3 years old. | ||
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| 28 | The VFR-eFAST experiment aims to investigate the feasibility of having non-medical personnel, | ||
| 29 | in this case, analog astronauts, perform a focused ultrasonography of the abdomen and thorax. | ||
| 30 | In order to properly simulate the time training and performing the ultrasonography, the analog | ||
| 31 | astronauts are not to be prepared at all before conducting the experiment. | ||
| 32 | The experiment will start with an approx. 20-minute instructional video on how to set up the | ||
| 33 | ultrasonography, how to handle the probes, and how to perform the examination. The analog | ||
| 34 | astronauts will then independently complete the exam on a live test subject and send the | ||
| 35 | required views back to the MSC. The images will then be rated independently based on quality | ||
| 36 | by experienced radiologists. | ||
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| 39 | = Experiment Data = | ||
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| 42 | |(% style="width:158px" %)[[2021-10-18>>https://mission.oewf.org/archive_downloads/amadee20/VFR-EFAST/2021-10-18/]]|(% style="width:1681px" %)5x .jpeg | ||
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