Whole Body Vibration and DCS
These effect the severity of DCS when they enter vessels of pilots or divers.
What are venous gas emboli/bubbles?
Radiologists at mission control had to guide in real time use of this particular diagnostic tool.
What is Ultrasound?
A technique that uses light waves to take cross-section pictures of retina, can capture different layers of the eye.
What is optical coherence tomography?
The largest planet in our solar system.
What is Jupiter?
This gas is used during prebreathing and flight.
What is 100% O2?
The first ever blood clot in space was located in this particular vasculature on the left side of the body and is primarily associated with cancer, a central venous catheter, or ovarian hyperstimulation.
What is the left internal jugular vein?
the name of the experimental treatment was being used to potentially prevent optic disc edema.
What is lower body negative pressure or LBNP treatment?
This has a gravitational pull so strong that even light cannot escape it.
What is a black hole?
This apparatus is used to simulate a low pressure environment.
What is a hypobaric chamber?
Due to surface tension effects, administration of medications in this dosage form are difficult in microgravity.
What are liquid vials?
This is used to represent time in space.
What is FD - Flight delay?
This is the type of star that the Sun is.
What is a yellow dwarf star?
This acronym was a method used by researchers to quantify bubble grades over time (must answer with the full acronym - not just the letters).
Kisman Integrated Severity Score
20 vials of this anti-coagulant were available for subcutaneous injection for the first 43 days of therapy.
What is enoxaparin (Lovenox)?
This was the outcome of the LBNP treatment.
What was "not successful"?
The flavor that Baskin Robbins release in 1969 to commemorate America landing on the moon.
What is Lunar Cheescake?
Venous gas emboli originate from gas micronuclei in this part of the body.
What is vessel endothelium?
The first and only Direct Oral Anticoagulant to be used on the International Space Station.
What is Apixaban?
These are the symptoms of space flight associated neuro occular sydrome (name one).
What is : poor vision, nausea, tinnitus, lymphatic drainage issues, poor coordination?
This NASA space flight was the last manned mission to the moon.
Apollo 17