Jochen Hinkelbein, Steffen Kerkhoff, Christoph Adler, Anton Ahlbäck, Stefan Braunecker, Daniel Burgard, Fabrizio Cirillo, Edoardo De Robertis, Eckard Glaser, Theresa K Haidl, Pete Hodkinson, Ivan Zefiro Iovino, Stefanie Jansen, Kolaparambil Varghese Lydia Johnson, Saskia Jünger, Matthieu Komorowski, Marion Leary, Christina Mackaill, Alexander Nagrebetsky, Christopher Neuhaus, Lucas Rehnberg, Giovanni Marco Romano, Thais Russomano, Jan Schmitz, Oliver Spelten, Clément Starck, Seamus Thierry, Rochelle Velho, Tobias Warnecke
BACKGROUND: With the "Artemis"-mission mankind will return to the Moon by 2024. Prolonged periods in space will not only present physical and psychological challenges to the astronauts, but also pose risks concerning the medical treatment capabilities of the crew. So far, no guideline exists for the treatment of severe medical emergencies in microgravity. We, as a international group of researchers related to the field of aerospace medicine and critical care, took on the challenge and developed a an evidence-based guideline for the arguably most severe medical emergency - cardiac arrest...
November 2, 2020: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine