Countermeasure · Space Medicine
Lower-Body Negative Pressure
A device that applies suction to the lower body, pulling fluids back toward the legs as gravity would. It is studied as a countermeasure to the headward fluid shift and the eye changes of SANS.
Mitigates
The physiological effects this countermeasure targets.
Studied aboard & related
Knowledge connections
- Member of groupSpace Medicine
- MitigatesFluid shift and vision changes
- MitigatesCardiovascular Deconditioning
- Associated withInternational Space Station
Sources
The primary and reference sources this topic draws on.
- NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration
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