"Space medicine is a specialized field, which developed from Aerospace medicine, that focuses on the acute medical care of astronauts and spaceflight participants."
Study of remote medical care in space, including the technology and protocols for diagnosing and treating illnesses from Earth.
Telemedicine technology: This includes the hardware and software components that are needed for telemedicine consultations and treatments.
Telemedicine applications: A wide range of medical disciplines use telemedicine to enhance patient care delivery. This includes remote patient monitoring, teleradiology, telepsychiatry, telepathology, teledermatology, teleophthalmology, and telenutrition.
Telemedicine network infrastructure: The telecommunications infrastructure of telemedicine networks that enable remote consultations, data exchange, and other functions.
Legal and regulatory issues: Telemedicine is subject to various legal and regulatory requirements, including HIPAA compliance, medical licensing issues, and liability considerations.
Privacy and security: Privacy and security concerns related to telemedicine include data breaches, identity theft, and unauthorized access to sensitive patient information.
Patient education and engagement: The proper education and engagement of patients is essential when implementing telemedicine. This includes education on how to use telemedicine technology, expectations, and the benefits of telemedicine.
Rural healthcare: Telemedicine helps patients living in remote or rural areas to access healthcare and enhances the effectiveness of healthcare delivery.
Cost-effectiveness: Telemedicine can reduce healthcare costs and improve patient outcomes.
Telemedicine in emergencies: During natural disasters or public emergencies, telemedicine helps healthcare providers to communicate with patients and deliver medical assistance.
NASA’s role in telemedicine: NASA promotes telemedicine to improve medical care for astronauts and remote space missions. Its technologies and practices have also improved healthcare delivery on Earth.
Live Video Conferencing: This involves a physician conducting a real-time video consultation with the patient using secure video conferencing technology.
Store-and-Forward: This type of telemedicine involves capturing and transmitting medical images, videos, and patient data to physicians for interpretation and diagnosis at a different time.
Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM): This involves the use of technology to monitor a patient's vital signs and other medical indicators from a different location.
Mobile Health (mHealth): This is a term used to describe the use of mobile technology such as smartphones, tablets, and wearables to deliver healthcare services.
Home Health Monitoring: This type of telemedicine involves healthcare providers monitoring patients from their homes using devices that capture a patient's vital signs and other health data.
Teleradiology: This involves the use of telecommunication technology to transmit medical images and test results to radiologists or other healthcare providers for interpretation and diagnosis.
Telepharmacy: This is a type of telemedicine that enables patients to receive counseling and medication management from a remote pharmacist via telephone or video conferencing.
Teledermatology: This involves the use of technology to capture and transmit images of a patient's skin or wounds to a dermatologist for diagnosis and treatment.
Telepsychiatry: This is a type of telemedicine that allows patients to receive psychiatric counseling and medication management via video conferencing.
Remote Surgery: This involves a surgeon conducting a surgical procedure on a patient remotely using robotics or other types of remote technology.
"The spaceflight environment poses many unique stressors to the human body, including G forces, microgravity, unusual atmospheres such as low pressure or high carbon dioxide, and space radiation."
"Space medicine applies emergency medicine, acute care medicine, critical care medicine, interventional radiology, radiology, austere medicine, and toxicology perspectives."
"This expertise is then used to inform vehicle systems design to minimize the risk to human health and performance while meeting mission objectives."
"Astronautical hygiene is the application of science and technology to the prevention or control of exposure to the hazards that may cause astronaut ill health."
"Both these sciences work together to ensure that astronauts work in a safe environment."
"Medical consequences such as possible blindness and bone loss have been associated with human spaceflight."
"In October 2015, the NASA Office of Inspector General issued a health hazards report related to space exploration, including a human mission to Mars."
"Aerospace medicine developed into space medicine, focusing on the acute medical care of astronauts and spaceflight participants."
"Unusual atmospheres such as low pressure or high carbon dioxide" are unique stressors in space.
"Space medicine applies emergency medicine, acute care medicine, critical care medicine, interventional radiology, radiology, austere medicine, and toxicology perspectives."
"This expertise is then used to inform vehicle systems design to minimize the risk to human health and performance while meeting mission objectives."
"Astronautical hygiene ensures the prevention or control of exposure to hazards that may cause astronaut ill health."
"Possible blindness and bone loss have been associated with human spaceflight."
"The health hazards report related to space exploration, including a human mission to Mars."
"The spaceflight environment poses many unique stressors to the human body, including G forces, microgravity, unusual atmospheres such as low pressure or high carbon dioxide, and space radiation."
"The main focus of space medicine is the acute medical care of astronauts and spaceflight participants."
"Space medicine applies emergency medicine, acute care medicine, critical care medicine, interventional radiology, radiology, austere medicine, and toxicology perspectives to treat and prepare for medical problems in space."
"Astronautical hygiene is important to prevent astronaut ill health caused by various hazards."
"The NASA Office of Inspector General issued a health hazards report related to space exploration, including a human mission to Mars, in October 2015."