Scarpa Julia, Parazynski Scott, Strangman Gary
Department of Anesthesiology, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY, United States.
Fluidity Technologies, Inc., Houston, TX, United States.
Front Med (Lausanne). 2023 Jul 19;10:1226531. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2023.1226531. eCollection 2023.
Aerospace research has a long history of developing technologies with industry-changing applications and recent history is no exception. The expansion of commercial spaceflight and the upcoming exploration-class missions to the Moon and Mars are expected to accelerate this process even more. The resulting portable, wearable, contactless, and regenerable medical technologies are not only the future of healthcare in deep space but also the future of healthcare here on Earth. These multi-dimensional and integrative technologies are non-invasive, easily-deployable, low-footprint devices that have the ability to facilitate rapid detection, diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment of a variety of conditions, and to provide decision-making and performance support. Therefore, they are primed for applications in low-resource and remote environments, facilitating the extension of quality care delivery to all patients in all communities and empowering non-specialists to intervene early and safely in order to optimize patient-centered outcomes. Additionally, these technologies have the potential to advance care delivery in tertiary care centers by improving transitions of care, providing holistic patient data, and supporting clinician wellness and performance. The requirements of space exploration have created a number of paradigm-altering medical technologies that are primed to revitalize and elevate our standard of care here on Earth.
航天研究在开发具有改变行业应用的技术方面有着悠久的历史，近期的历史也不例外。商业太空飞行的扩张以及即将进行的前往月球和火星的探索级任务预计将进一步加速这一进程。由此产生的便携式、可穿戴、非接触式和可再生医疗技术不仅是深空医疗保健的未来，也是地球上医疗保健的未来。这些多维度和综合性技术是无创、易于部署、占地面积小的设备，能够促进对各种病症的快速检测、诊断、监测和治疗，并提供决策和性能支持。因此，它们适用于资源匮乏和偏远的环境，有助于将优质医疗服务扩展到所有社区的所有患者，并使非专业人员能够早期安全地进行干预，以优化以患者为中心的治疗效果。此外，这些技术有可能通过改善护理过渡、提供全面的患者数据以及支持临床医生的健康和表现，推动三级护理中心的医疗服务。太空探索的需求催生了一些改变范式的医疗技术，这些技术有望振兴并提升我们在地球上的医疗标准。
