Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 46, Issue 2 , Pages 177-184, August 2005

Emergencies in Space

From the Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS (Summers); and Medical Operations, Office of Space Medicine, (Johnston, Marshburn) and Astronaut Office (Williams), National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX

Received 15 September 2004; received in revised form 11 February 2005; accepted 14 February 2005. published online 04 May 2005.

Manned spaceflight is inherently risky and results in unique problems from a trauma and medical perspective. Emergency care under these special physiologic and environmental conditions calls for novel techniques for diagnosis and therapy.

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 Supervising editor: Judd E. Hollander, MDFunding and support: The authors report this study did not receive any outside funding or support.

PII: S0196-0644(05)00204-0

doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2005.02.010

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 46, Issue 2 , Pages 177-184, August 2005

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