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Topic: Surgery in near Zero-Gs
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Danno
Member Posts: 572
From: Ridgecrest, CA - USA
Registered: Jun 2000
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posted 09-27-2006 10:09 AM
  
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060927/ap_on_he_me/weightless_surgery Surgeons do 1st near-weightless surgery MERIGNAC, France - A team of French doctors said they successfully operated on a man in near zero-gravity conditions Wednesday on a flight looping in the air like a roller coaster to mimic weightlessness. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The experiment is part of a broader effort to develop robots for future operations from a distance — in space or on Earth. The surgery went "exactly as we had expected," Martin told reporters near Merignac airport, outside Bordeaux. "All the data we collected allow us to think that operating on a human in the conditions of space would not present insurmountable problems." The medical team was strapped down to the walls of the Airbus 300 Zero-G plane as it looped up and down in a total of 25 roller coaster-like maneuvers, called parabolas. Each dive, creating conditions close to weightlessness, lasted 22 seconds — and the doctors operated during those intervals only.
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mjanovec
Member Posts: 3811
From: Midwest, USA
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 09-27-2006 11:06 AM
I hope they were able to keep all of the vomit out of the open incision.  |
Astro Bill
Member Posts: 1329
From: New York, NY
Registered: Feb 2005
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posted 09-27-2006 05:34 PM
quote:
Originally posted by mjanovec:
I hope they were able to keep all of the vomit out of the open incision.
There was no INCISION. They removed a cyst in 8 minutes. An incision would have required much more time. This is the beginning of space surgery. I agree that it is a very important first step. However, the ISS has been in space for years. There have been over 400 people in space so far, according to the news article. Why did it take so long for this small but important first step. If mankind intends to return to the Moon in 18 to 20 years, will we be ready by then for any eventuality, such an an accident of some kind? We are not ready now, but we may be more prepared for this eventuality by continuing such surgical experiments in space, but on animals. |
Danno
Member Posts: 572
From: Ridgecrest, CA - USA
Registered: Jun 2000
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posted 09-28-2006 10:04 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Astro Bill:
There was no INCISION. They removed a cyst in 8 minutes.
Actually there was an incision:
http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_4407597 The five-man medical team made history by slicing off the patient's yellow growth, which then floated away, tied to a string. Doctors worked in intervals of 22 seconds during conditions of weightlessness. Coincidentally, it took 22 intervals to complete the surgery. |
Astro Bill
Member Posts: 1329
From: New York, NY
Registered: Feb 2005
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posted 09-28-2006 12:42 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Danno:
Actually there was an incision:
http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_4407597 The five-man medical team made history by slicing off the patient's yellow growth, which then floated away, tied to a string. Doctors worked in intervals of 22 seconds during conditions of weightlessness. Coincidentally, it took 22 intervals to complete the surgery.
I read the article too and I saw the proceduce on NBC. They did not make an incision into the body. They removed a cyst on the surface of the body. |
John K. Rochester
Member Posts: 1292
From: Rochester, NY, USA
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 09-28-2006 01:26 PM
WHO CARES if it was an incision or not!! Mingia!!Sorry...got caught up in the lunacy of it all. ( actually it was an excision..) [Edited by John K. Rochester (September 28, 2006).] |
Andy
Member Posts: 32
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Registered: Aug 2002
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posted 09-28-2006 02:31 PM
Sorry to bust any French bubbles, but this wasn't the first surgery in "weightlessness" (other articles, such as the AP article, state that this team performed the first surgery on an animal in weightlessness in 2003. Not true). The STS 90 Neurolab mission performed surgery on 5 rats, in space. It may have even been done earlier, but this French team certainly wasn't the first (referring, of course, to the 2003 claim). |
mjanovec
Member Posts: 3811
From: Midwest, USA
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 09-28-2006 05:10 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Astro Bill:
There was no INCISION.
Umm, I was joking. |
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