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Currently submitted to: JMIR Aging

Date Submitted: Mar 23, 2026
Open Peer Review Period: Mar 25, 2026 - May 20, 2026
(currently open for review)

Warning: This is an author submission that is not peer-reviewed or edited. Preprints - unless they show as "accepted" - should not be relied on to guide clinical practice or health-related behavior and should not be reported in news media as established information.

Advancing Personalized Perioperative Geriatric Care with Space Medical Technology: An Observational Feasibility Study Across the Aging and Cognitive Spectra

  • Julia Scarpa; 
  • Hannah Leibowitz; 
  • Nicole Blattman; 
  • Elizabeth Geib; 
  • Saiesh Kalva; 
  • Cheguevara Afaneh; 
  • Joseph R. Scarpa; 
  • Mark S. Lachs; 
  • Quan Zhang; 
  • Gary E. Strangman

ABSTRACT

This study demonstrates that it is highly feasible to recruit and retain surgical patients across the aging and cognitive spectra for continuous perioperative neuromonitoring using NINscan, a multimodal wearable device originally developed for spaceflight.


 Citation

Please cite as:

Scarpa J, Leibowitz H, Blattman N, Geib E, Kalva S, Afaneh C, Scarpa JR, Lachs MS, Zhang Q, Strangman GE

Advancing Personalized Perioperative Geriatric Care with Space Medical Technology: An Observational Feasibility Study Across the Aging and Cognitive Spectra

JMIR Preprints. 23/03/2026:95729

DOI: 10.2196/preprints.95729

URL: https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/95729

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