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Incidences of infectious disease pose serious threats to armed forces worldwide, risking the success of critical operations and the deaths of Warfighters. Approaches exist to reduce severity of disease impact to operational forces by detecting, monitoring, and treating infected personnel after exposure, but this does not effectively maintain and sustain force health. Force medical personnel need s ...

We propose to prototype a scalable, cost-effective methodology and supporting technology for rapidly developing procedures to automatically measure value of delivered healthcare for a wide range of condition-specific cycles of care, starting in Phase 1 with analysis of low back pain. To maximize scalability, our approach takes full advantage of unique asset available to the military: comprehensive ...

Intraocular surgery is usually performed under stereoscopic guidance using a surgical microscope. The surgeon is usually able to see intraocular structures through a clear cornea. However, when the optical clarity of the cornea is severely compromised, visualization of the retina and other intraocular structures is very difficult or impossible. Poor visualization of intraocular structures during s ...

The advancements in body armor combined with better combat casualty care have greatly increased the survival rate of soldiers suffering battlefield trauma injuries. The increased survivability, however, has resulted in an increase of wounded warriors being sent home with severe injuries that ultimately reduce their quality of life post-treatment, especially those with severe damage to genitourinar ...

Soldiers displaying symptoms of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) need accurate, timely, in-theater assessment of symptoms. Often, initial assessment and diagnosis must be conducted by first-level responders who attempt to assess vestibular symptoms directly following a concussive event; however, these symptoms are often missed, not adequately evaluated, or misdiagnosed due to a lack of familiari ...

Triton Systems will apply our novel materials design expertise to develop a training model that would realistically simulate female anatomy to support the simulation-based training of Battlefield Combat Casualty Care.

Currently, deployed medics are required to transport, maintain and be resupplied with liquid-based medications and materials that are heavy, expensive to transport, perishable and may require refrigeration.Many medications and materials are or will be available in dehydrated formularies that require sterile water for injection (SWFI) to rehydrate for immediate use, such as freeze-dried platelets.I ...

Triton Systems and its team members propose to develop a sterile water for injection (SWFI) purification system capable of purifying potable water at far-forward deployed locations.

Hyperkalemia is a leading cause of death in patients with acute kidney injury (AKI), especially in combat situations. An extremely high mortality rate was recorded during both World War II and the Korean War. Renal replacement therapy remains the standard of care for the treatment of hyperkalemia but may not be available in austere environments or when field care and evacuation time are prolonged. ...

TDA, working with our collaborators, proposes to develop a novel RF heating process for rewarming cryogenically preserved tissues and organs.We have demonstrated high heating rates with the nanoparticles during the Phase I project. In the Phase II project, we will improve our already high heating rate by optimizing the RF heating process, along with the type, size and morphology of the nanoparticl ...