True, exploring anything beyond the planet’s boundary does not anymore leave us surprised, as the advent of technologies have provided us with all the confidence and dare even extent our knowledge beyond our solar system - but surgery at zero-gravity!
A team of French doctors — three surgeons, backed by two anesthetists and a team of army parachutists — will do exactly that on Wednesday. They will operate the world’s first human in zero-gravity, removing a fatty tumor from the forearm of a volunteer over the course of a three-hour flight.
The miniature surgical tools to be used will be held in place with magnets placed around the patient’s stretcher. The reduced size of the operating theatre was designed by a French elevator manufacturer.
It will be a test run for performing surgery in space. The pioneering operation will be held in the priceless ‘laboratory-in-the-sky’ aircraft — Zero-G — a plane designed and built by Europe to simulate gravity-free conditions.
