Chapter 1241 Discussion

Living in an environment with no gravity and low gravity for a long time, astronauts growing up on Blue Star will obviously feel that various fluids such as blood and lymph in their lower body will flow into their upper body more than that on the ground of Blue Star. Facial puffiness, increased blood pressure in the head, varicose veins in the neck.

Living in outer space is already very difficult, and it would be an even more terrible disaster if you had to undergo surgery.

The orbit of the International Space Station is only 400 kilometers away from Blue Star, but all the astronauts on the space station who need to use surgery are in a stable state after taking sedatives and other drugs when the medicine is completely untreatable, and then contact the person on the ground. The agency to which the astronaut belonged transported him back to Blue Star, and then operated on the ground of Blue Star.

But this method is unlikely on a moon base. In recent years, the American Orion spacecraft has carried out a mission to circle the moon and return to the earth.

Launched by the rocket carrying out the Artemis 1 mission, and returning to the blue star after orbiting the moon, the whole journey lasted 25 days and 10 hours in total, taking into account the extreme environment on the way to and from the moon and on the moon, including microgravity and high-level radiation and closed pressurized chambers and special spacesuit factors.

It is basically impossible for an astronaut who continues to perform surgery to save his own life to persist until returning to the blue star from the moon, and then adjust his physical condition until he can undergo surgery.

The concerns of these academicians and scientists are not the Holy Mother, but the problems that aerospace projects must solve.

Speaking from a young age, if you send a few elites up there, everyone can still trust each other’s physical fitness. In the short term, there should be no need for any surgery. But once the number of people expands, there are hundreds or thousands of people in the moon base. will be magnified countless times.

Everyone does not want to cast a bloody shadow on this project, and in the future, space travel will become popular, and the moon base will be expanded. There will inevitably be many ordinary people with mediocre physical fitness who have not undergone years of training to enter the moon base. There will definitely be medical needs at that time .

If we don't solve it now, we will think of a solution when the problem arises?

Isn't that a disregard for human life in disguise?

This group of scientific madmen is not so arrogant as to disregard life.

During the quarrel, Gu Qing pushed away the display screen, stood in the center of the discussion field, and said: "Living in low-gravity and no-gravity environments for a long time will greatly affect the blood pressure, viscera, and muscle functions of astronauts, and All are inferior impairments, so the need for surgical operations is more important than ordinary people. At the same time, everyone should not ignore that because of the weakening of physical fitness, astronauts are more likely to be infected by bacteria and viruses.

At the same time, under the exposure of multiple radiations in outer space, some diseased tissues that are not usually found may become active, which is also extremely detrimental to the health of astronauts.

We equip astronauts with medical robots and engineering robots, in order to reduce the possibility of astronauts being injured during their work, and at the same time monitor and control their diet, sleep and mental state to avoid appendicitis, gallbladder inflammation, and stomach pain. . (The stomach is an organ that can be affected by emotions, so please keep your mood healthy)

But these only reduce the probability of needing surgery, and cannot completely make surgery disappear.

We also have medical reforms and innovations, such as learning to use magnetized surgical tools on the International Space Station. These surgical tools can be attached to the worktable of the operating table at any time, so that they will not fly around due to weightlessness.

There is also minimally invasive surgery, such as keyhole surgery, where only a small incision is made on the patient's body, and it can be perfectly completed in the abdominal cavity by using cameras and surgical instruments.

Of course, there are many other difficulties to overcome. For example, the surface tension of the patient's body fluids will be greatly changed because of the weightless state, and liquids such as blood and urine will adhere to instruments and other tissue structures. It even floats up to form a fog that interferes with the doctor's sight and the camera's collection.

At the same time, because the surgical environment needs to be airtight, it will increase the risk of infection for patients, and it will also greatly test the physical strength, observation skills and psychological quality of doctors. "

Gu Qing's narration gradually calmed down the discussions in the laboratory.

Academicians and doctors in their 60s and 70s, as well as middle-aged scientists and young experimenters, all listened quietly.

Although my big boss is talking about problems that most people in the industry know, but the aerospace project is so complicated, how can someone who works on machinery know more than someone who works on human biology?

The more knowledgeable a person is, the more humble he will be.

Originally, there were still a few young people who thought that the early stage was about taking risks, and they also began to calm down and follow Gu Qing's narration, thinking about the plan to break the game.

Everyone has a lot of confidence in the matter of rockets sending spacecraft into the sky. It's just that the traditional concept of Daxia believes that if things are not done, they can't make a conclusion early, so they have discussed it many times.

The big problem of outer space surgery is something that no one can solve, but it may be a problem that many people at the scene will have to face in the future.

Gu Qing raised his head and looked at the academicians beside him who were also attentively listening to the lecture, feeling calm but deeply moved.

Retired in the seventies, signed a non-disclosure agreement and still has to use the remaining heat in his own projects. He obviously knows the correct answers to certain projects sometimes, but because of many rules, he can't say it clearly. He can only direct students and other experiments. The members fiddled with all kinds of tricks and reproduced the steps of their original solution.

And there is no need for an annual salary of tens of millions. Sincerely guide students and watch projects, it is really like a family with an old man like a treasure...

For the imminent health needs of these scientific researchers and astronauts, Gu Qing snapped his fingers and dug out a proposal for designing multiple major industries from his database.

Then facing a group of scientists, academicians, and professors, he said: "The environment in outer space is harsh, unlike Blue Star that can provide me with a safe environment, so we have to re-develop a medical system, whether it is the so-called Xia TCM or Western medicine. In modern medicine, we must learn from others' strengths and make substantial innovations.

First of all, we have to solve the key problem, the operating room and surgical tools.

Magnetic surgical tools only solve the problem of tools being scattered due to gravity, and we have to develop new materials and coatings for surgical tools so that they are not contaminated with liquids, and at the same time have sharp and stable characteristics.

It is also necessary to develop a closed surgical space that is airtight but can handle germs and viruses at any time, so that the liquid in the patient's body can be optimally processed, and a good surgical environment can be provided to the surgeon. "