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BACKGROUND: The Exploration Medical Integrated Product Team (XMIPT) is focused on formulating a medical system for exploration missions to Mars. Such a medical system must overcome expected mass, volume, resupply, and communication delay constraints and address current gaps in medical capability. The XMIPT's portfolio consists of activities to close 10 medical gaps that were derived based on inputs from NASA flight surgeons, clinical providers, and other NASA subject matter experts. These activities and gaps reside on the XMIPT's exploration medical integrated roadmap and are used to communicate progress, areas of need, collaboration, and programmatic infusion to stakeholders internal and external to NASA. OVERVIEW: This presentation will provide an overview of the required planned gap-closing activities and current efforts within the exploratio medical domain. The XMIPT's approach to prioritizing development is based on factors such as operational need, the maturity of the technology, and activities being performed by other NASA organizations. Current XMIPT activities to meet exploration mission needs include development of an in situ intravenous fluid generation device, development of an Exploration Electronic Health Record, evaluation of medications after exposure to vacuum, as well as performing market surveys and down select of Clinical Decision Support, Mini X-ray, Compact Laboratory Analysis, and Behavioral Health and Performance tools. The importance and status of these specific activities will be discussed here and in subsequent panel presentations. DISCUSSION: The XMIPT integrated medical roadmap is reviewed and revised annually providing a status of activities by groups across NASA to close exploration medical capability gaps. XMIPT projects are focused on advancing technology readiness level and conducting ground and inflight demonstrations to enable programmatic infusion. The XMIPT partners with external organization such as the DoD and commercial partners to leverage shared resources to achieve gap closure priorities. Collectively, the XMIPT's curated, integrated medical roadmap and development activities seek to mitigate medical risk for crews on Mars missions. Learning Objectives 1. The participant will be able to describe the XMIPT's current activities and how they contribute to exploration medical gap closure. 2. The participant will be able to understand the process by which exploration medical capability gaps and resulting roadmap activities were identified and prioritized. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
