Service de Radiologie, Hôpital La Timone, Assistance Publique-Hopitaux de Marseille, 264, rue Saint Pierre, 13385, Marseille, France.
Institut de Médecine et Physiologie Spatiale (MEDES) - CNES/SpaceshipFR, BP 74404, 31405, Toulouse CEDEX 4, France.
Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol. 2023 Apr;46(4):425-427. doi: 10.1007/s00270-023-03392-3. Epub 2023 Mar 14.
At present, astronauts on space missions can get medical assistant from Earth. In the future, deep space missions such as missions to Mars will delay communication with physicians on Earth, making it impossible to get immediate support in urgent medical situations. On the spaceship, a polyvalent physician-astronaut could mainly perform small surgery and traumatology procedures. Interventional Radiology (IR) allows minimally invasive interventions and requires small devices. In these conditions of space constrains, IR presents significant benefits. To guarantee the technical realization of specific medical interventions during deep space missions, a team composed of interventional radiologists and space engineers, is developing the IR toolbox. The development of the toolbox intents to minimize the volume/weight of medical devices and to ensure the safety requirements for the crew. New scenarios of IR interventions have been developed to adapt the interventions to the spatial context, making possible the treatment of pathologies that are otherwise, on Earth, optimally treated surgically. Interventional radiology has a major role to play in the management of acute medical problems which may occur in the future story of deep space missions to the Moon, and further to Mars.
目前，执行太空任务的宇航员可以得到来自地球的医疗协助。在未来，像前往火星的深空任务这样的任务将延迟与地球上的医生的沟通，使得在紧急医疗情况下无法获得即时支持。在飞船上，多能型医师宇航员主要可以进行小手术和创伤学手术。介入放射学（IR）允许进行微创介入治疗，且需要使用小型设备。在这些空间受限的情况下，IR 具有显著优势。为了确保在深空任务中进行特定医疗介入的技术实现，一个由介入放射学家和空间工程师组成的团队正在开发 IR 工具箱。工具箱的开发旨在最小化医疗设备的体积/重量，并确保为机组人员提供安全要求。已经开发了新的 IR 介入场景，以使介入适应空间环境，从而可以治疗在地球上通常通过手术治疗的疾病。介入放射学在处理未来的月球和更远的火星深空任务中可能出现的急性医疗问题的管理方面发挥着重要作用。
