Author Archives: asmaspacesurgery

See Drs. Jeff Pantalos and Dani Carroll at the Johns Hopkins Space Surgery Mini-Symposoium Series October 25, 2022 at 2 p.m. EST!

Find new recordings of the SSA Lecture Series on our website under ‘About Space Surgery’ page! We will also continue to post our talks here in the future.

Karen Hughes Miller, Erica Sutton, and George Pantalos published a paper in the journal Surgical Innovation with the title ‘Hierarchical Task Analysis Reimagined as a Planning Tool for Surgery During Exploration Space Flight’. Find the abstract and paper HERE.

Space Surgery Association scrub caps can be purchased HERE! Caps are $28 each, with a $3 kickback per cap to SSA.

Siddharth Rajput from Sydney, Australia, has published a review paper on the topic of Space Surgery in the journal “Acta Astronautica”. Congratulations! Find the paper HERE. This is a great overview of what matters from a surgical perspective when planning long-term spaceflight.

Bergita Ganse and colleagues have studied neuromuscular interaction in a ESA/NASA 60-day bed rest study with human centrifugation. The paper was published in the journal Experimental Cell Research and can be viewed here.

Brooke E. Barrow, George M. Pantalos, and Thomas J. Roussel Jr. have published a paper in Acta Astronautica that shows and evaluates a new multifunctional surgical device. Read it here.

THIS new paper by Reyes et al., published in the journal “Surgical Innovation”, does not support the prophylactic removal of appendix and/or gallbladder for spaceflight.

Dr Siddharth Rajput from Sydney, Australia is going to give a talk on space surgery at the 43rd COSPAR scientific assembly in Sydney Jan 31st to 4th Feb 2021 on “Challenges of providing surgical care in Space” followed by Q & A. Find a link to the scientific program HERE.

The presenter PDFs and video recordings of the Space Surgery Session of the Space Health Symposium are now online. Find them HERE.