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Space medicine researcher Thais Russomano dies at 63
Brazilian space medicine researcher Thais Russomano died at 63 on Saturday, October 17, in Porto Alegre while being treated for cancer.
She had trained at the Federal University of Pelotas and worked with institutions in several countries.
She helped develop the Evetts-Russomano CPR method for treating cardiac arrest in microgravity, where rescuers and patients float.
The method uses the rescuer’s legs to stay close to the patient during chest compressions, without relying on the spacecraft’s walls.
A 2020 guideline recommended the method for the initial stage of CPR during spaceflight.
Russomano also founded a microgravity research centre at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul and studied how the human body responds to space conditions.
Thais Russomano, a researcher known for her work in space medicine, died at 63 in Porto Alegre.
She was being treated for cancer at Hospital Moinhos de Vento.
Russomano helped develop the Evetts-Russomano method for cardiopulmonary resuscitation in microgravity.
The method uses a rescuer’s legs to keep them close to a patient during chest compressions.
She worked with institutions including King’s College London and the German Aerospace Center.
- Who
- Thais Russomano, a physician and space medicine researcher.
- What
- She died at 63.
- When
- Saturday, 17 October; the year is not stated in the articles.
- Where
- Porto Alegre, Brazil.
- Why
- Not stated.
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Russomano completed her medical degree at the Federal University of Pelotas.
She founded the Microgravity Center at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul.
The Evetts-Russomano technique was demonstrated in a parabolic flight.
The technique was recommended for the initial stage of resuscitation in a guideline from German and European aerospace medicine societies.
Russomano died at 63 in Porto Alegre.
- Age
- 63
- Death location
- Porto Alegre, Brazil
- Hospital
- Hospital Moinhos de Vento
- Technique
- Evetts-Russomano method
- Medical degree
- Federal University of Pelotas, 1985
- Microgravity Center
- Founded at PUCRS in 1999