Unfortunately the planned telesurgery hookup with Concordia and the Mars Desert Research Station did not work.
Adrianos writes:
“Yesterday we tried for more than 2 hours to connect with you, and our IT technician did a tremendous effort, but unfortunately without success. We encountered a multitude of problems and solved a few but eventually we could not locate and call your address or receive your call.”
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The experiment continued as planned without the medical doctors in Concordia with a telesurgery-teleanesthesia. Dr. Susan Jewell, crew executive officer for the Mars134 team in Utah writes:
“I want to convey my appreciation to everyone who participated in the telesurgery-teleanesthesia early this morning . We were able to achieve many of the objectives we had planned, in addition, encountered new operational and technical challenges during the simulation.”
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All experiments are helpful in the end and the Mars134 team learn alot about operating protocols, instructions, real-time delays in communication and use of non-expert medical personnel to perform procedures.
The debriefing with doctors from ground control summarised the experience:
“These conversations and lessons learned are providing a valuable platform for all of us to explore what would be required in training a future Mars crew to handle remote medical crises.”
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