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The Space Surgery Association (SSA) is an international group of surgeons, other physicians, and specialists in procedural medicine, scientists, and engineers working jointly to develop capabilities to perform surgery in the spaceflight environment. We are an affiliate organization of AsMA, the Aerospace Medical Association.
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Space Surgery Blog
3M ago
See Drs. Jeff Pantalos and Dani Carroll at the Johns Hopkins Space Surgery Mini-Symposoium Series October 25, 2022 at 2 p.m. EST ..read more
Space Surgery Blog
1y ago
Find new recordings of the SSA Lecture Series on our website under ‘About Space Surgery’! We will also continue to post our talks here in the future ..read more
Space Surgery Blog
1y ago
Karen Hughes Miller, Erica Sutton and George Pantalos published a paper in the journal Surgical Innovation with the title ‘Hierarchical Task Analysis Reimagined as a Planning Tool for Surgery During Exploration Space Flight’. Find the abstract and paper HERE ..read more
Space Surgery Blog
1y ago
Space Surgery Association scrub caps can be purchased HERE! Caps are $25 apiece, with a $3 kickback per cap to SSA ..read more
Space Surgery Blog
1y ago
Siddharth Rajput from Sydney, Australia, has published a review paper on the topic of Space Surgery in the journal “Acta Astronautica”. Congratulations! Find the paper HERE. This is a great overview of what matters from a surgical perspective when planning long-term spaceflight ..read more
Space Surgery Blog
1y ago
Let’s meet at AsMA in Denver! We’ll have a booth set up with lots of fun things to see and talk about. We’ve also scheduled the following events:
Tuesday: SSA Group Meeting, 5-6pm in Columbine Room
Wednesday: Wings Over the Rockies after-dinner event — with hors d’oeuvres and live music
Thursday: SSA Panel
Also find a list of talks and other events HERE.
We look forward to meeting you at the AsMA Annual Meeting ..read more
Space Surgery Blog
1y ago
Bergita Ganse and colleagues have studied neuromuscular interaction in a ESA/NASA 60-day bed rest study with human centrifugation. The paper was published in the journal Experimental Cell Research ..read more
Space Surgery Blog
1y ago
Brooke E. Barrow, George M. Pantalos, and Thomas J. Roussel Jr. have published a paper in Acta Astronautica that shows and evaluates a new multifunctional surgical device ..read more
Space Surgery Blog
1y ago
THIS new paper by Reyes et al., published in the journal “Surgical Innovation”, does not support the prophylactic removal of appendix and/or gallbladder for spaceflight ..read more
Space Surgery Blog
1y ago
Dr Siddharth Rajput from Sydney, Australia is going to give a talk on space surgery at the 43rd COSPAR scientific assembly in Sydney Jan 31st to 4th Feb 2021 on “Challenges of providing surgical care in Space” followed by Q & A. Find a link to the scientific program HERE ..read more