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Hearing loss and tinnitus remain the most common service-connected disabilities, and may be caused by excessive noise exposure, as well as blast and impulse noise.Soldiers who experience tinnitus or mild-to-moderate hearing loss tend to have difficulty understanding speech-in-noise.While peripheral hearing loss can be addressed with amplification through a hearing aid, significant rehabilitation i ...

The purpose of this SBIR topics is to develop, demonstrate, and commercialize an automated and data-driven computational framework for the design and optimization of passive prosthetic & orthotic (P&O) interfaces. Such a framework will predict the equilibrium shape and compliant mechanical properties of an optimized P&O interface, enhancing user comfort, mitigating soft tissue injury, and ultimate ...

The purpose of this SBIR topics is to develop a light-weight, small cube(space occupying/volume when stored), field-ready antiseptic, warming, and pressure relieving casualty transport padding for up to 72 hours of litter evacuation.

Tao Treasures LLC, dba Nanobiofab (NBF), hereafter referred to as Nanobiofab, is developing a revolutionary RAPID-iNose solution to address the urgent need for an intelligent wound dressing system that integrates bacterial infection detection with NPWT. The RAPID-iNose employs low-cost, highly sensitive, accurate, miniaturizable, AI-powered gas sensors for rapid, continuous, and real-time monitori ...

The nature of military operations leads to high noise levels, exposing personnel to the possibility of noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL). Individual hearing monitoring is conducted yearly, which can only provide a record of the progression of irreversible hearing loss with limited options for intervention and mitigation. Furthermore, there is limited data that links actual, real-world noise exposu ...

Today, medical simulators such as medical mannequins play an essential role in training combat medics, doctors, nurses, and other military medical personnel. The more realistic those medical simulators are, the more effectively the trained personnel can act in the real situations. To be fully useful in such critical training, however, medical simulators need to overcome the tradeoff between fideli ...

The CBC Analyzer Phase II Enhancement effort will be to optimize, test, and package the prototype. The advancement of the microfluidic cartridge performance will incorporate cell separation techniques within the current microfluidic cartridge design. This will be based on Lynntech’s preliminary work with blood separation, where a novel blood component separator was developed which uses a centerl ...

The CONOPS for the Expeditionary Medical Support System (EMEDS) is based on practical effectiveness, speed, and efficiency. Key among the tools required by the Air Mobility Command and the Air Combat Command, which are two of the major commands that are part of the United Air Force is a multi-channel intravenous infusion pump capable of delivering fluids that meets the safe-to-fly criteria for all ...

Dizziness is a common complaint, with about one third of the population experiencing dizziness at some point in their life. Vestibular rehabilitation targets vestibular adaptation and substitution for patients with vertigo and dizziness of vestibular origin. Unfortunately, vestibular rehabilitation requires specialized physical therapists who may not be accessible to service members or the general ...

Development of Augmented Reality (AR) training tools for combat casualty care with realistic animations and voice navigation capability on tablets and AR headset is proposed to enhance the tools that have already been developed during the Phase II effort on fasciotomy, cricothyroidotomy, and lateral canthotomy. Such enhancements are made possible by the recent advancement in both hardware and soft ...