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Editorial
. 2021 Feb:258:457-459.
doi: 10.1016/j.jss.2020.07.085. Epub 2020 Sep 16.

Letter Regarding "How to Manage Head Injury With COVID-19 Pneumonitis On Mars? Rare But High Impact Complex Medical Emergencies In Space"

Maksymilian A Brzezicki  1 , Douglas C Crockett  2 , Andrew Cooney  3 , Jamie M Strachan  3
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Letter Regarding "How to Manage Head Injury With COVID-19 Pneumonitis On Mars? Rare But High Impact Complex Medical Emergencies In Space"

Maksymilian A Brzezicki et al. J Surg Res. 2021 Feb.
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Summary of challenges to a hypothetical scenario of a complex medical emergency (head injury complicated by infection) on Mars. Base areas (gray: 1 to 4) could be turned into four temporary medical areas, all separated by “clean” and “dirty” oxygen circuits. Additional filtration strategies can be employed, for example by heat and moisture exchange barriers, ionising radiation, and chemical sterilisation. The Martian environment poses several dangers (brown): known (physiology, atmosphere, gravitation, terrestrial microbiology, radiation) and unknown (martial pathogens, random catastrophic events). The situation can be further complicated by factors simulated by Robertson et al., 2020 (pink). (Color version of figure is available online.)
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