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ANESTHESIA IN OUTER SPACE 

The Anesthesia Consultant

Leonard “Bones” McCoy on the original Star Trek , who waved his fictional handheld “tricorder” tool over a patient to diagnose and treat the patient’s illness. Is an anesthesiologist required on board? Astronauts will be trained in the insertion of IV cannulae, and the sampling of blood for diagnostic tests.