Concerns about heart dysrhythmia have been present since the earliest days of the US manned space program. While information about an astronaut's health is general kept private, one of the original seven American astronaut's health status was played out in a very public forum. Donald "Deke" Slayton was removed from the second manned space flight when it was discovered he had idiopathic atrial fibrillation. Referencing the original medical documents, details of how this was discovered and managed from the medical perspective will be reviewed. This is NASA's first heart dysrhythmia case in an astronaut and it proves quite interesting when placed in historic perspective.


    Access

    Access via TIB

    Check availability in my library


    Export, share and cite



    Title :

    NASA's First Atrial Fibrillation Case - Deke Slayton


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Aerospace Medicine Association Annual Scientific Meeting ; 2010 ; Anchorage, AK, United States


    Publication date :

    2010-01-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




    Atrial Fibrillation: Catheter Laser Balloon Ablation

    Bonso, A. / Themistoclakis, S. / Rossillo, A. et al. | British Library Conference Proceedings | 2003


    NASA's first dexterous space robot

    Mccain, Harry G. | NTRS | 1990


    FTS - NASA's first dexterous telerobot

    Mccain, Harry G. | NTRS | 1990


    Reentry in paroxysmal atrial fibrillation in humans

    Jalife, J. | British Library Conference Proceedings | 2007


    Atrial Fibrillation Among the NASA Astronaut Corps

    Charvat, Jacqueline / Lee, Stuart / Stenger, Michael et al. | NTRS | 2020