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According to the Joint Commission, approximately 70% of sentinel events in medical care are related to communication mishaps, and despite regular and frequent occurrence, poor communication during patient handoffs (i.e., transfer of patient care information, responsibility, and authority from one provider to another) remains a major contributor to medical errors (Nether, 2017; The Joint Commission ...

Severe hemorrhage accounts for 90% of all survivable pre-hospital deaths in military combat scenarios, as there is limited access to resuscitation fluids for transfusion. Particularly in scenarios of prolonged forward field care, there is a significant need for hemorrhage control and rapid restoration of blood volume without compromising clotting behavior or gas exchange capabilities. Luna is work ...

The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in 2019-2020 has caused a global pandemic, and no preventative measures that are demonstrated broadly effective and safely available. Various platforms for vaccine development are available, including virus vectored vaccines, protein subunit vaccines, genetic vaccines, and monoclonal antibodies for passive immunization. ...

To develop a support tool for detecting retina damage, first a clinical decision support algorithm for rapid analysis of fundus images of the retina before and after laser injury was developed. The retinal images then went through a rigorous image enhancement phase, image data augmentation, and pixel normalization. Following the enhancement and augmentation processes, algorithms were developed to ...

This STTR Phase II project proposes development of a statistical relational learning framework for identification of the function of laboratory equipment from imagery. The proposed framework uses semantic reasoning to incorporate evidence from multiple classifiers and feature extractors, domain knowledge, and scene context for scene understanding and labeling. The Phase II effort will focus on dev ...

Ensuring the safety of drinking water is a global concern and a critical need for the United States Armed Forces. The ability to rapidly detect viable indicator organisms in water sources, including total coliforms and E. coli, in near-real time has been identified as critical to mission success by the US military. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved test method currently used to me ...

Current thermal and chemical burn care practices such as debridement and physical therapy produce intense pain for patients. The management of this intense pain relies almost exclusively on systemically administered opioids or other pain medications, which are known to produce side effects as serious as opioid dependence.The need to reduce opioid use can be met by delivering the known effective op ...

Ultrasound is a therapeutic modality which has been used clinically for 60 years, but has been limited in practice by the complexity of the technology. Recent research has allowed for the development of a portable, wearable, long duration, low intensity therapeutic ultrasound system. The system is powered by battery, and can be applied by a user to deliver up

Ultrasound is a therapeutic modality which has been used clinically for 60 years, but has been limited in practice by the complexity of the technology. Recent research has allowed for the development of a portable, wearable, long duration, low intensity therapeutic ultrasound system. The system is powered by battery, and can be applied by a user to deliver up