Exciting New Contributions to Space Surgery from Our Members

At SSA, we are thrilled to celebrate the work of our members. Recently, five new publications and book chapters authored by our members have been released and we encourage you to explore them:

1. Reaching Mars: Medical risks and potential surgical conditions in the Martian environment and during long-duration spaceflight by Dora Babocs,,Angela Preda, and,Rowena Christiansen. Read the article here.

2. Precision Medicine for Long and Safe Permanence of Humans in Space: Chapter 7 - Surgery in spaceflight by Nunzio Franco, Dora Babocs, and Siddharth Rajput. Read the chapter here.

3. Precision Medicine for Long and Safe Permanence of Humans in Space: Chapter 27 - Vascular surgery in spaceflight by Nunzio Franco, Dora Babocs,,Rowena Christiansen, Laura M. Drudi, and Siddharth Rajpu. Read the chapter here.

4. Precision Medicine for Long and Safe Permanence of Humans in Space: Chapter 34 - The lymphatic system in spaceflight: The known, unknown, and theoretical by Dora Babocs, Heather Barnhart, Caroline Fife, and M. Mark Melin.  Read the chapter here.

5. Using noninvasive imaging to assess manual lymphatic drainage on lymphatic/venous responses in a spaceflight analog by Heather Barnhart, Frank Aviles Jr, Johanna Pannunzio, Nathan Sirkis, Chantel Hubbard, Patrick Hardigan, Sabrina Ginsburg, Harvey Mayrovitz, Kristen A. Eckert and M. Mark Melin. Read the article here.