“Spaceflight-to-Eye Clinic”: Terrestrial advances in ophthalmic healthcare delivery from space-based innovations
Spaceflight
Health Care Delivery
Health care delivery
Space medicine
DOI:
10.1016/j.lssr.2024.02.003
Publication Date:
2024-02-13T17:02:50Z
AUTHORS (10)
ABSTRACT
The phrase "Bench-to-Bedside" is a well-known phrase in medicine, highlighting scientific discoveries that directly translate to impacting patient care. Key examples of translational research include identification of key molecular targets in diseases and development of diagnostic laboratory tests for earlier disease detection. Bridging these scientific advances to the bedside/clinic has played a meaningful impact in numerous patient lives. The spaceflight environment poses a unique opportunity to also make this impact; the nature of harsh extraterrestrial conditions and medically austere and remote environments push for cutting-edge technology innovation. Many of these novel technologies built for the spaceflight environment also have numerous benefits for human health on Earth. In this manuscript, we focus on "Spaceflight-to-Eye Clinic" and discuss technologies built for the spaceflight environment that eventually helped to optimize ophthalmic health on Earth (e.g., LADAR for satellite docking now utilized in eye-tracking technology for LASIK). We also discuss current technology research for spaceflight associated neuro-ocular syndrome (SANS) that may also be applied to terrestrial ophthalmic health. Ultimately, various advances made to enable to the future of space exploration have also advanced the ophthalmic health of individuals on Earth.
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