Surgical test in weightless environment

Recently, a team of scientists has conducted simulation surgery on a Canadian jet designed to create a weightless environment.

Surgery in a weightless environment

A dissection on the Earth is advantageous because the internal organs are fixed by weight, if suspended in the space, the situation will be much more complicated, the patients need to be protected especially because of the body's internal part is capable of drifting through other positions, causing a squeeze, a mess, and the blood can quickly fall into an unmanageable state .

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There are some situations where people do not have practical experience to overcome. So, the team under the leadership of Major Andrew Kirkpatrick decided to test anatomy in the simulated environment quite similar to reality.

Gizmag said in the last days of June 2015 the Canadian National Research Council's Falcon 20 jet was launched from Macdonald-Cartier, Ottawa international airport. The plane performs a parabolic arc, when the peak is reached, the passenger will feel the weightless condition. At that time, the group of Canadian and American scientists will proceed to open the patient's abdomen, the position of surgery on the body is chosen to have less internal bleeding but without control it will quickly cause death.

The 'patients ' in this case will be wearing Cut Suit, which is the product of Strategic Operations, a company that simulates situations that need to be simulated in practice.

Cut Suit is a custom suit to match the internal organs and blood in each ' actor '. However, in the preliminary study, the actors are computers with sensors that can detect gravitational forces. When the aircraft enters the zero gravity environment, the pump will start to simulate the bleeding situation and when the gravity returns, the pump stops working and then recurs for the next wave. Computers will constantly monitor blood loss and other factors, data will be stored and analyzed, evaluated when returning to the ground.

Gizmag said the system also records the activities of doctors during the test.