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Eurac Research physicians tested the LUCAS automatic heart massager aboard an airbus that simulated altered gravity by means of a parabolic flight. The goal of the study was to ascertain whether the d...

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Eurac Research physicians tested the LUCAS automatic heart massager aboard an airbus that simulated altered gravity by means of a parabolic flight. The goal of the study was to ascertain whether the device could be used for cardiac emergencies in space.

Alessandro Forti and Giacomo Strapazzon testing the automatic massager

Giacomo Strapazzon has recently been appointed new director of the Eurac Research Institute for Mountain Emergency Medicine following a handover from Hermann Brugger, the physician and researcher who founded the Institute in 2009. 
For the past 12 years, researchers led by Brugger and vice director Strapazzon, have achieved important results with studies on resuscitation, effects of hypoxia and hypothermia having gained international recognition both in the scientific community and among mountaineers. 
Recent years have seen terraXcube, the infrastructure that simulates the most extreme climates on Earth, opening new frontiers in mountain medicine. Strapazzon will continue to lead the group along these pioneering paths, aiming ever higher to reach the peak of mountain emergency medical research.

Alessandro Forti and Giacomo Strapazzon testing the LUCAS automatic heart massager aboard the airbus 

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Our researchers tested an automated heart massager to measure its efficacy on space missions

Houston, we have a (heart) problem

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Houston, we have a (heart) problem

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