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The goal of this project is to produce a prototype wireless solution for monitoring real-time core temperatures in humans during hot and cold exposure, to include water immersion, for up to 24 hours in resting and exercising individuals,providing early warning of heat stress, heat stroke and hypothermia. Such a device that can save military medical costs and increase duty time does not currently ...

The goal of this project is to develop and validate a chemical sterilant solution for use in austere environments that sterilizes surgical instruments and other materiel through immersion. The product will be a powder or concentrated liquid that when mixed with potable water creates the requisite solution capable of the desired sterilization. Using our considerable background in water sterilizatio ...

Tourniquets are an important medical tool that are used to apply pressure to a wounded limb or extremity to restrict and prevent blood loss. Tourniquets can be used during some surgical procedures and in emergencies to stop severe traumatic bleeding. As the U.S. Military faces peer and near-peer adversaries, the time-to-evacuation for wounded warfighters is expected to increase. Likewise, the diff ...

The Defense Health Agency (DHA US DOD) requires a low-profile, high-speed sensor that can detect back face deformation (BFD) from armor systems undergoing ballistic qualification. The current standard only provides post impact permanent BFD, but does not accurately capture maximum BFD that occurs during the impact event. TDA has identified an inexpensive, low-profile kinematic sensor system that w ...

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common complication of severe trauma, and it is critical for these patients to have rapid access to dialysis equipment. Unfortunately, battlefield hospitals may be unable to access the large volumes of dialysate fluid required. In order to avoid the high logistical cost of shipping aqueous solutions into battlefield locations and to ensure continual access to this po ...

Despite the advances in a combat helmet design and materials’ evolution, the major drawback of the current state-of-the art ACH helmet, as well as some more recent advanced designs such as FAST and ECH, is that they still don’t offer enough of blast shockwave energy dissipation and absorption to fully protect a soldier from concussive brain injuries. As such, a new supplementary lightweight de ...

Due to the increasing threat of a terrorist nuclear attack or radiation accident, development of drugs to prevent death and morbidity resulting from radiation exposure has become a high government priority. Bone marrow is one of the most radiation sensitive tissues, and subjects acutely exposed to radiation doses greater than 2 Gray develop severe neutropenia, thrombocytopenia, anemia, and lymphop ...

The ability to deliver oxygen to patients requiring supplemental oxygen is an essential part of treatment for combat casualties who incur traumatic injuries. The current centralized oxygen generation and distribution system used by Army to meet this high oxygen demand is extremely heavy, maintenance intensive and require large dedicated power generators. Therefore, if the Army could replace the cu ...

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