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We Can Thank the Space Race for Patient Monitoring Technologies

By John Hauber, MD | on February 19, 2021 | 0 Comment
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Canadian Space Agency astronaut David Saint-Jacques tries the Bio-Monitor, a smart shirt system is designed to measure and record astronauts’ vital signs.

Dr. HauberDr. Hauber is an emergency medicine resident at Mount Sinai Morningside-West in New York City.

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ACEP Now: Vol 40 – No 02 – February 2021

References

  1. Pitts J. SP-4213 The Human Factor: Biomedicine in the Manned Space Program to 1980. Washington, DC: NASA; 1985. 
  2. SP-45 Mercury Project summary, chapter 8. National Aeronautics and Space Administration website. Accessed Dec. 11, 2020.
  3. Miller J. Inventing the Apollo spaceflight biomedical sensors. Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum website. Accessed Nov. 19, 2020.
  4. SP-368 Biomedical Results of Apollo. National Aeronautics and Space Administration website. Accessed Dec. 11, 2020.
  5. Bio-Monitor: keeping an eye on astronauts’ vital signs. Canadian Space Agency website . Accessed Nov. 24, 2020.

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Topics: Blood PressureECGMonitortelemetry

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