Minerva Medical

Comprehensive clinical solutions for commercial human spaceflight,
industrial operations, and remote environments.

CARE FOR EXTREME FRONTIERS

What we do:

At Minerva Medical, we deliver exceptional medical care to remote and challenging environments in support of commercial human spaceflight and related industries. We build custom solutions to address the unique medical needs of our customers. Our approach is to create a lean and adaptable program to provide operational medical care in difficult environments. We provide immediate implementation with the ability to scale and flex with the customers' changing needs, as well as comprehensive clinical medicine supporting commercial human spaceflight and its corresponding industries.

Space Medicine:

Clinical Capabilities

  • Preflight medical screening

    • Coordinating medical screening for astronaut crew during early stages of mission planning to adjust for screening results.
    • Using data to plan pre-flight conditioning programs.

  • Preflight pre-habilitation

    • Preflight conditioning to limit the need for inflight countermeasures and to preserve function throughout flight.
    • Characterizing astronauts’ functional pre-flight baseline functional capacity and identifying problem areas that need to be accounted for in later programming.

  • Inflight medical support

    • Space med flight surgeon support via console while astronauts are flying on the vehicle or on station.

  • Postflight rehab

    • Postflight reassessment and decrement characterization used to build an individualized rehabilitation plan for each astronaut.
    • Follow each astronaut through completion of rehab and regaining of baseline functional capacity.

  • Postflight assessment and clearance

    • Safely clear astronauts to return to activities, like driving or sport, once they achieve rehab milestones.

  • Launch and recovery operational medical support

    • Operational medical support during highly dynamic events of launch and recovery.
    • Deployable paramedics with tactical medicine, water rescue, air medical, survival, and high angle rescue training skills.

Consulting services:

Spaceflight medical kit development

Spaceflight medical hardware development

Operational medical training for spaceflight

Ground side Occupational and Emergency medical support for commercial space:

• Extensive experience in heavy industrial medicine, space vehicle factories, rocket engine test sites, and launch pad operational medical support.

• Onsite Industrial EMS, urgent care, occupational medicine, including treatment modalities like Industrial, Austere, and Exploration Operational medicine.

Industrial, Austere, and Exploration
operational medicine

Industrial EMS & Occupational Medicine

  • Full ACLS ambulance team capability

  • Onsite urgent care or aid stations

  • Occupational medicine screening

  • Onsite workers comp medical care

  • Custom industrial hygiene and ergonomics programs

Commercial Diving Support

  • Medical kit development, onsite medical personnel, online and offline physician medical direction

  • Video Telemedicine and specialist support

Maritime Expeditionary Medicine

  • Mission planning for medical support capabilities

  • Expeditionary medical kit development

  • Trained expeditionary medical personnel

  • Remote online and offline medical direction

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