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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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Duplicating the spectrum of the psychomotor sensory experience of tactical combat casualty care (TCCC) on the battlefield is not achievable within extended reality (xR) training solutions using current haptic devices, as no device or technology today can come close to meeting the perceptual sensitivity of the human haptic system. A clear alternative to haptic device technologies is synthetic tissu ...

Servicemembers exposed to blasts have frequent complaints of vertigo, gaze instability, balance problems, motion intolerance, and other symptoms consistent with peripheral vestibular pathology. Current vestibular rehabilitation is an exercise-based approach aimed at promoting gaze stability, improving balance, and habituating symptoms. To maintain the high standards of the Military Health System i ...

In PhaseI, IAI, teamed with researchers from University of Maryland School of Medicine,successfully developed and demonstrated thefeasibility of thetechnical innovation that was proposed:mDERM,a smartphone based dermatology diagnosis system thatcan be operated by medicsand/or warriors in the battlefield to diagnosetheinfected skin lesion with asnapshot. In PhaseII we will leverageand enhance the p ...