Learning Path: Emergency Medicine

Reading list

1. Clinician quick-start clinical
   What you'll learn: Fast orientation: what is expected after landing and what is a red flag.
2. Orthostatic intolerance after landing clinical
   What you'll learn: Lie the patient down first; fluids, compression and staged rising.
3. Space motion sickness & readaptation clinical
   What you'll learn: Nausea, vertigo and imbalance after landing, and when to look for another cause.
4. In-flight emergencies & evacuation clinical
   What you'll learn: How emergencies are handled in orbit and what the landing handoff looks like.
5. Decompression sickness & EVA clinical
   What you'll learn: Recognizing and treating DCS, with links to dive and altitude medicine.
6. Point-of-care ultrasound clinical
   What you'll learn: How ultrasound is used in space and why it suits returning flyers.
7. Kidney stone risk clinical
   What you'll learn: Flank pain in a recently returned flyer.
8. Mission medical kits equipment
   What you'll learn: What drugs and equipment are flown, from suborbital to Mars.
9. Case: syncope after landing learn
   What you'll learn: Practice the landing-day assessment.
10. Case: joint pain after a spacewalk learn
    What you'll learn: Practice recognizing decompression sickness.
11. Question bank learn
    What you'll learn: Check what you learned.