Medical Support for Space Missions: The Case of the SIRIUS Project

Medical support is one of the essential safety conditions for isolation or confinement experiments, as it enables the timely arrangement of actions to preserve the health of crew members and volunteers. Such analog experiments allow the testing of prospective medical technologies and methods for hea...

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Published in:Aerospace 2023-05, Vol.10 (6), p.518
Main Authors: Fedyay, Stefania, Niiazov, Arslan, Ponomarev, Sergey, Polyakov, Aleksei, Belakovskiy, Mark, Orlov, Oleg
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analysis
Confinement
Data collection
Data exchange
Engineers
Experiments
First aid
Health services
isolation/confinement
Laboratories
Life support systems
long-term space flights
Manned space flight
manned space missions
Medical equipment
Medical personnel
Medical research
medical support
Medical technology
model experiments
Moon
Optimization
Research methodology
Research projects
Signs and symptoms
Space missions
Support groups
Support systems
Vitamin D
Volunteers
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Summary:Medical support is one of the essential safety conditions for isolation or confinement experiments, as it enables the timely arrangement of actions to preserve the health of crew members and volunteers. Such analog experiments allow the testing of prospective medical technologies and methods for health support in long-term space missions and on-planet stations. In the current paper, we report the results of the medical control within the medical support system of the two model isolation experiments of the SIRIUS series, lasting for 4 and 8 months, respectively. The results indicate the prevalence of headache complaints, skin inflammatory reactions, and sleep disturbance during the longer confinement experiment. In addition, signs of vitamin D deficiency were revealed in 10 of the 12 objects. The data exchange with the scientific branch of the experiments provides for the in-time detection of early symptoms of disease, using samples of blood, urine, saliva, epithelia, etc. However, the issues of medical data confidence and, subsequently, of the crew members’ compliance with the medical staff, become pointed. In general, the work demonstrates the expediency of the investigations, including the data collection and analysis of the medical control indicators in further experiments, for the optimization of the medical support of both the analogous research projects and the development of the recommendations for the medical support of small autonomous groups, such as manned space missions.
ISSN:2226-4310
2226-4310
DOI:10.3390/aerospace10060518