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Indian Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla recently took to X to share an interesting piece of information on how medical emergencies are handled in space.

“There’s no ambulance in space. No hospital. No ER. So how do astronauts survive medical emergencies? How we do CPR is going to blow your mind!!!!” he wrote.

On the International Space Station (ISS) that astronauts prepare to be doctors, nurses, and first responders all at once. Their patients are usually mannequins that repeatedly “go into cardiac arrest,” giving crews endless practice at CPR, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, and firing up an automated external defibrillator (AED), he explained.

He further stated that treating patients in zero gravity comes with challenges unimaginab

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