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Measurement of vital signs (VS) is essential to assess the condition of human body. VS includes body temperature (Tc), heart (pulse) rate (HR), respiration rate (RR) and blood pressure (BP). VS are useful in detecting medical problems. Typically VS measurement and monitoring takes place in a controlled setting like hospital, clinic or home using bulky contact based machines. In order to monitor VS ...

For this Phase I SBIR project, Vcom3D will research and develop a modular, proof-of-concept Mixed Reality (MR) Extreme Cold Simulation Trainer for Medic Education (ECSTREME). The system will build on available Modular Healthcare Simulation and Education System (MoHSES) open standards, interoperable modules, and open-source resources. We will demonstrate and evaluate a proof-of-concept ECSTREME sys ...

ArchieMD's proposed haptic VR simulations for cold weather injury assessment, management, and treatment combine the most important aspects of various skills training pedagogies into a single immersive training system. This system will incorporate and overlay theoretical knowledge in a practical context to supplement traditional educational models. The military has more recently acknowledged the ne ...

SIMETRI will address the Department of Defense’s new emphasis on Arctic policy and a new massive international exercise in the Arctic with the Cold Weather Injury Simulation System, or CWISS, which will provide the DoD and Civilian medical personnel with a training environment that replicates the extreme cold environment. Phase I will include the development of training devices for the most comm ...

The work effort in this Sequential Phase II supports the DHA objective of managing large surface area burn wounds in austere and prolonged field care (PFC) environments. KeriCure Medical’s spray on wound dressing technology, to be marketed under the brand name Field Shield, has been optimized to support combat casualty care’s efforts to improve management of large numbers of burn casualties at ...

For all traumatic wounds in the military and civilian population, injuries to the chest are seen in about 60%. Fortunately, nearly 90% of all chest injuries can be treated non-operatively through chest decompression (chest tubes) and adequate pain control. Residual blood in the chest after drainage (retained hemothorax) can result in a persistent clot, constricting fibrin peel, pneumonia, and in t ...

Accurate core temperature measurement is critical for safe assessment of warfighter operational readiness since it is a parameter strongly associated with environmental temperature-related injuries and exertional heat exhaustion of thermally burdened soldiers. Yet, this variable is still incredibly challenging to measure accurately, reliably, noninvasively, and cost-effectively. Because of this, i ...

The more effective medical simulation model would address these needs by incorporating both the visually realistic physiology of a casualty and tactile fidelity of performing the procedure. This would better prepare warfighter trainees to recognize and treat evolving emergencies during prolonged casualty care. • The enhancement funding will be utilized to integrate a previously developed robust ...

Bacteriophages (phages) are becoming important therapeutic candidates against multidrug resistant (MDR) bacterial infections. There is a need to isolate and concentrate phages collected from the field to enhance specimen storage stability for long-distance transport to specialized laboratories for subsequent analysis. Environmental phage preparation requires expensive, bulky instrumentation and in ...

This PHASE II two-year proposal is designed to expand upon the knowledge gained already in the PHASE I research regarding the development of rapid bioresorbable glasses to bring us to the making of prototype stents which would be ready for testing in animals and humans. Motivated by the success of PHASE I research, wherein several bioresorbable glasses in the Na2O-K2O-CaO-B2O3-P2O5 have been devel ...