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Principles of Clinical Medicine for Space Flight

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The delivery of medical care in space is complicated by factors such as weightlessness extreme resource constraints, hazardous environments, and extreme distance from definitive medical care facilities. In addition, crew medical officers (CMOs)—those personnel required to provide inflight medical care—are typically not health-care professionals. After receiving a minimal amount of medical training, the CMOs are responsible for tending to ill or injured colleagues. One method of mitigating the lack of training and experience for crew medical officers is by remote consultation with medical experts on Earth, or telemedicine.

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  1. KBR, Houston, TX, USA

    Shannon Melton & Byron A. Smith

  2. KBR to University of Calgary, Houston, TX, USA

    Douglas R. Hamilton

  3. Medweb, LLC, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Scott C. Simmons

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  1. NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, USA

    Michael R. Barratt

  2. Gynecologic Oncology and Reproductive Medicine, University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

    Ellen S. Baker

  3. Deceased, Formerly Chief, Medical Sciences Division, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, USA

    Sam L. Pool

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Melton, S., Simmons, S.C., Smith, B.A., Hamilton, D.R. (2019). Telemedicine. In: Barratt, M., Baker, E., Pool, S. (eds) Principles of Clinical Medicine for Space Flight. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-9889-0_8

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