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A french surgical team leaded by Dominique Martin has performed the first surgery in a zero-gravity flight. The patient a 46 years old male, was a volunteer and he just needed local anesthesia in the forearm.
The procedure was successful, and the chief surgeon said: “the operation went right with no complications. Now we know that a human being could be operated while on space”.
The surgical team (three surgeons and two anesthesioligists), was fixed to the floor and worked with the instruments that was fixed with magnets.
Their approval: “More than 400 people had traveled to the space, the possibilities that anyone could suffer an accident are there. With these kind of procedures, things will be easier”