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The vast majority of injuries in recent military conflicts have been inflicted by improvised explosive devices (IEDs) causing brain, extremities and genital-urinary injuries. Advanced computational models of IED blast physics and human body injury biomech

Many emergency cricothyrotomy kits have been developed in an attempt to simplify this potentially life-saving medical procedure. However, none of the existing kits perform noticeably better than the standard surgical kit. The standard kit itself has led

Timely management and closure of burn wounds are critical for proper emergency care and the assurance of positive outcomes for the warfighter. Current technologies rely on reagents that cannot respond effectively to the different classes of pathogens that

In this Phase I program, Fabrico Technology, Professor Leonid Bunegin of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSC-SA), and Dr. Rocco Armonda, Director, Neuroendovascular Surgery and Neurotrauma, MedStar-Georgetown University Hos

Burkholderia pseudomallei and Burkholderia mallei are highly pathogenic Gram - negative bacteria and the causative agents of melioidosis and glanders, respectively. These infections, which occur in humans and other animals, are endemic is wide regions of the developing world. This Phase II SBIR project will build on the success of our Phase I work, which established methods for generating monoclon ...

Large medical centers can overwhelm patients - for example, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center covers over 2.4 million square feet of clinical space - yet the primary objective for these facilities is to provide patient satisfaction with the healthcare services. A Virtual Concierge application is being proposed to help guide the patients throughout their entire visit at the medical faci ...

Enterprises across industry sectors face a common challenge how can they track, analyze and interact with employees, assets and customers based on their movement and physical location Existing solutions, GPS and Wifi, are expensive, battery intensive and insufficiently accurate indoors. Current location tracking services often fail to initiate appropriate actions based on location. Enterprises re ...

Integrated Clinical Environments (ICE) rely heavily on medical devices that need to be protected from security threats without compromising patient health and safety. There is a need to assess clinical workflow configurations in terms of security, usability, and efficiency. Currently, each medical device has its own security controls. Access to multiple devices in the integrated environment requir ...

This project will produce an antibacterial nanogel platform to combat multidrug-resistant bacterial infections in wounds. Infections by multidrug-resistant bacteria are increasing at an alarming rate and represents a growing threat to US military medicine and public health. Bacteria such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), A. baumannii, P. aeruginosa, E. coli and K. pneumonia ha ...

We propose to take our hearing-test device, which was designed to support research in advancing hearing-conservation programs, and ruggedize it for use in theater. Five key challenges that make the commercial-off-the-shelf OAE systems unsuitable for HCPs, will be overcome. We will: 1) implement next-generation otoacoustic emission tests to enable OAE measurements in noise-damaged ears, 2) add smar ...