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Charles G Minard¹, Mary Freire de Carvalho, M Sriram Iyengar

¹NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, USA. charles.g.minard@nasa.gov

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Area of Science:

Space medicine
Aerospace engineering
Health systems research

Background:

Efficient medical resource allocation is critical for astronaut health during spaceflight.
The Integrated Medical Model (IMM) estimates medical events, mitigation strategies, and resource needs.
An optimization module was developed for IMM to maximize crew health under resource constraints.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop and evaluate an optimization module for efficient medical resource allocation in spaceflight.
To maximize crew health outcomes by systematically adjusting medical kit contents.
To compare optimized medical kits with maximum and minimum kits under various mission profiles.

Main Methods:

A systematic elimination and preservation process was used to identify an optimal medical kit.
Resources were evaluated based on their impact on crew health outcomes.
The module's effectiveness was tested using six different space mission profiles, optimizing for the Crew Health Index (CHI).

Main Results:

Optimized and maximum medical kits yielded comparable expected Crew Health Index (CHI) values.
The optimized kit demonstrated greater variability in CHI compared to the maximum kit.
The maximum kit, while providing the best outcomes, was substantially larger and heavier than the optimized kit (13.7x mass, 26.6x volume).

Conclusions:

The IMM optimization module serves as an objective tool for efficient medical resource allocation in spaceflight.
This flexible algorithm can aid in designing and determining medical kit requirements for space missions.
The optimization approach balances crew health with critical resource limitations for long-duration space exploration.