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Regional Anesthesia Simulator for Training of Anesthesia Care Providers

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Army
Contract: W81XWH-06-C-0064
Agency Tracking Number: O052-H09-3121
Amount: $99,760.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: OSD05-H09
Solicitation Number: 2005.2
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2005
Award Year: 2005
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2006-01-20
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2007-01-20
Small Business Information
31 Cross Street
West Newton, MA 02465
United States
DUNS: 184758308
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Mandayam Srinivasan
 Founder and President
 (617) 332-0539
 srini@yantric.com
Business Contact
 Mandayam Srinivasan
Title: Founder and President
Phone: (617) 332-0539
Email: srini@yantric.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

The sophistication of weapons and the advances in protective armor in recent years has resulted in a change in typical injuries in combat situations. More and more soldiers sustain and survive catastrophic injuries to their extremities. Regional anesthesia is highly valuable in this context, providing effective pain management during medical evacuation, surgery and post-operative care. However, regional anesthesia is not a consistent part of typical medical training programs today. The goal of this effort is to develop a virtual training system to provide widespread and mass-deployable training to military anesthesiologists. The training system will initially target the infraclavicular brachial plexus block, which is a highly effective block to manage pain in traumatic injury to an upper extremity in combat. This block also has widespread civilian appeal due to its effectiveness in supporting orthopedic surgery to the hand, wrist, elbow and distal arm. Our training system will be easily adaptable to simulate other nerve blocks as well. We believe this training system will substantially improve the quality and accessibility of training to field personnel and has widespread applicability in the commercial space.

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