CPR can be simplified in space by chest compression machines

Micrograde makes it difficult to do easy work such as food, toilets and bathing, so it is not surprising that performing a CPR on someone whose heart stops in space is a very demanding way. But a mechanical device can perform work more efficiently, suggesting tests conducted in artificial microority.

On the ground, the weight and strength of someone is used to suppress the patient’s chest. But in space, things are different, because weight becomes practically meaningless.

NASA’s CPR protocol for the International Space Station is demanding that you tie yourself and the patient between two rigid levels, put a hand stand on their chest and press your feet to provide compression.

In search of a better way, Nathan Rennett and his colleagues at the University of Loren, France, experienced various CPR methods in the airbus A310 aircraft flying parabolic curves, a plan that produces 22 seconds of microorganisms. He also tested three different chest compression machines that are commonly used in a narrow environment on the ground, such as air ambulance helicopters.

All methods were applied to the training dummy and carefully monitored the depths of the chest compression. The European Research Council says it is necessary to be effective at least 50 mm depth: In the tests, the best mechanical device earned 53 mm, but the hand stand procedure only achieved 34.5 mm.

The research will be presented on August 31 at the European Society of Cardiology Congress in Madrid. Reneet and his colleagues said in a press release that they hope their results will affect future guidelines related to CPR in space.

Aaron Parthaurist at University College London says it is difficult to perform the current procedure for CPR in space and to cook a pip for improvement. He says, “If you were doing this for some reason in zero gravity or in a space station, matters may have gone wrong and the diagnosis is probably not very good.” “It looks like this new method indicates it.”

Since the space travel becomes more common and astronauts are not all high -selected and highly fit, the possibility of cardiac events will increase, the Portoist says. “Leaving the atmosphere of the earth, the only tension in those moments in the rocket is extremely hard at the heart. And staying long -term in space is extremely difficult on the cardiovascular systems. So it is obliged to happen.”

A NASA spokesperson said in a statement: “The manual pressure at the International Space Station is the current CPR methodology. NASA reduces the risk of CPR needs through vast medical screening of astronauts and strong engineering safe guards. After that, NASA has not prepared for the future of Microorganisms. Is