Space station crew credits ultrasound machine for handling in-orbit health crisis

Generally they won’t discuss the safety of astronauts being compromised because public eye and such.

If they used an ultrasound to resolve the issue then we are looking at an acute inflammation response, probably an appendix, GI complication involving intestinal tract, could be an ulcer of many types, spoiled food tubes, blocked GI tract

My bet is in appendix/GI complication because space is really hard on the gravity “dependent” human body

very unlikely that we would see foreign body invasion but you never know… 🪱👽👾

I’ll be honest, unless we start learning how to deal with this stuff in space, all these incremental steps are pointless. People on journeys to the outer cosmos can’t land back on earth and fix their ouchies. It unfortunately means we need to start taking more risks that could very well lead to fatal outcomes. Things like surgeries and birth and procreation in space must be studied, we can’t tap dance around the issue. We’ll need to figure out how to prevent bodily fluids from spreading harmful diseases and how to deal with wound care and all that stuff.

I’m glad the astronaut is safe and home but at some point we need to start taking greater risks. Many people are gonna need to answer the call and potentially sacrifice themselves so humanity can move forward. It won’t happen without them.