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As a result of the Disconnected, Intermittent, and Low-Bandwidth (DIL) environment, documenting and transmitting information about medical interventions and care provided to a wounded warrior, from the point of injury in the deployed environment through the time they are moved across each role of care, continues to present challenges. The challenge comprises two parts: 1) the documentation and cap ...

Providing timely physical and mental health support to Servicemembers and determining their readiness for duty after mTBI is crucial to maintaining mobility, survivability, lethality, and adaptability of our US Armed Forces. While research indicates that accelerometry and the use of wearable Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) to assess objective measures of postural and dynamic stability is very pr ...

A wearable sensor package connected to a smartphone with a balance and mobility algorithm, tailored by the physical therapist, enables continued training outside the clinic and identifies risky situations via the Risk of Falling Index. The algorithm identifies the patient activity in real-time and assigns a Movement Task Difficulty Score, which is paired with the clinician identified Patient Mobil ...

Currently, deployed medics must 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

iFyberLLC proposes to develop acoliform assay with differential detection of E.coliand total coliform that will circumvent thecurrent challenges with detectingthese organismsatalevel of1 CFU per100mLin less than 8 hours. The proposed assay targetsaresult in less than 8 hours by making use of novel microspherereagents forcaptureand concentration of thetargetcells,and couplingthesereagents with loop ...

Operational medicine data needs to be delivered both point-to-point and across multiple hops to particular mobile unit or gateway devices, and possibly beyond in Delayed, Intermittently-connected, Low-bandwidth (DIL) environments without end-to-end connectivity. The Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN) technology has great potential to provide these types of services to enable medical data s ...

The Phase II Technical Objectives align with the project goals of developing an outdoor device for spatial protection in a defined, limited outdoor area. While existing work has proven out technology which is effective in indoor areas, the work has not b

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 ...

Blood in thechestcavity (hemothorax) as a result of injury remains a common and seriouschallengein military and civilian trauma management. The primary treatment of hemothoraxrequires a tubeto beinserted into the pleural space around thelung. Unfortunately, in about20% of thecases,significant amounts of blood,clot, and fibrin remain after initial drainage.Left untreated, thiscan lead to a permanen ...

Our proposal develops an osteochondral repair platform that is conformable to a wide variety of injury geometries without the need for preoperative customization. Further this platform does not rely on any autologous tissue and is amenable to scalable man