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Thermal injury is common in military conflicts as well as in civilian activities, and burn severity ranges from limited partial thickness to severe full thickness burns that can cover a significant portion of the body. Scar formation from these burns can

Traumatic hemorrhage is the primary mechanism of death in potentially survivable combat injuries, and is the leading cause of death for civilians under the age of 44. A major underlying cause of this high mortality is Acute Traumatic Coagulopathy, a deadl

Defense Health Program (DHP)seeks to develop a new and innovativemedical devicetailored to prevent or treat accumulation of blood in the pleural space afterchest trauma or surgery (i.e.retained hemothorax). Critical Innovations; NeoMatRx;Milestone Strategies; OHSU School of Medicine; and, KARA & Associates, in addition to consultant Captains David Plurad,MD,FACS (USN, Ret.) and David Tanen,MD,FAAE ...

Defense Health Agency (DHA) seeks to develop a new and innovative point of injury device to manage patients with moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). Critical Innovations, NeoMatRx, and KARA & Associates; OHSU School of Medicine Division of Tr

Despite recent tremendous leaps in the development of new technologies for image recording, presentation, manipulation, 3D capabilities, and analysis many vision exams are still performed using paper Snellen charts, paper color charts and Amsler grids. Cu

The Defense Health Agency seeks to develop a universal, automated needle decompression device to more effectively manage tension pneumothorax on the battlefield. Critical Innovations, KARA & Associates, and the Ross Lab at OHSU, with consultants Captain David Tanen MD, FAAEM, FACMT (USN, Ret.) and Commander Denise Whitfield, MD, FACEP (USN, Ret.), have formed a team of medical device experts to ad ...

One of the major challenges in healthcare training using patient simulators such as manikins, task trainers, screen-based virtual patients is the lack of natural language communication capability between trainers/trainees and the patient simulators, which makes the communicating skill training almost impossible and the overall training experience unreal. Another challenge is that while conducting ...

To address the US Army need in novel toxicity sensing methods using a platform compatible with the Environmental Sentinel Biomonitor (ESB) for testing Army field water with the goal of increasing toxicant sensitivity and reducing consumable size and cost, SPZ Technologies, LLC (SPZT) proposes to continue the development a Human Cell-Based Biosensor (HCB). The HCB is based on novel human cells lyop ...

CRG completed the first steps toward developing an externally wearable, non-invasive, battery-operated device capable of providing analgesia equivalent to pharmacological peripheral ring nerve blocks by manipulating nervous system activity with magnetic fields. The approach involves optimizing magnetic coils for the transmission of specific waveforms of electrical stimulation to nociceptive nerve ...

Commanders, Combat Medics, and Lifesavers work together and face complex and often interdependent tasks, which include mission planning, command and control, communications, and coordination with other team members. There have been great strides made in the advancement of instructional content, however, one area that has lagged is the development of methods to enhance realistic virtual training ex ...