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Research in Space Surgery

Explore research from our members focused on developing surgical techniques and tools for microgravity, supporting effective medical care for astronauts on extended missions

Surgical instrument restraint in weightlessness

M R Campbell, D L Dawson, S Melton, D Hooker, H Cantu

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Reaching Mars: Medical risks and potential surgical conditions in the Martian environment and during long-duration spaceflight

Dora Babocs, Angela Preda, Rowena 

Christiansen

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Blunt trauma and operative care in microgravity: a review of microgravity physiology and surgical investigations with implications for critical care and operative treatment in space

A W Kirkpatrick, M R Campbell, O L Novinkov, I B Goncharov, I V Kovachevich

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A review of microgravity surgical investigations

M R Campbell, R D Billica

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Endoscopic surgery in weightlessness: the investigation of basic principles for surgery in space

M R Campbell, A W Kirkpatrick, R D Billica, S L Johnston, R Jennings, D Short, D Hamilton, S A Dulchavsky

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Laparoscopic surgery in weightlessness

M R Campbell, R D Billica, R Jennings, S Johnston 3rd

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