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While clinical audiometry is most often conducted with headphones, there are many practical cases where it is desirable to measure the free-space hearing performance of both normal-hearing listeners and listeners wearing hearing aids, hearing protection devices, or implantable hearing prosthetics, both for evaluating fitness for duty and for evaluating outcomes of clinical interventions. Tradition ...

Problem: Currently available resuscitation fluids have been shown to induce detrimental effects on trauma outcomes.Objective: The objective of this proposal is to use the data from the successful Phase 1 studies to guide the continued development and testing of the novel resuscitation fluid (GND-001), which has been designed to address the deficiencies of current resuscitation fluids.Proposed work ...

The DoD is preparing for future Contested Degraded Operations (CDO) environments where it will not be possible to sustain the current levels of medical care across the chain of care. Enemy activity and lack of resources may limit the availability of front line medical personnel, safe spaces to administer care, medical supplies, and time, denying physical access to evacuate patients and deliver med ...

A portable point of care device is proposed with features to enable rapid, automated, vascular access with single-stick accuracy by a medic with limited experience.A user-friendly GUI guides the medic in the devices use. Novel proprietary algorithms are employed to recognize key anatomical features and to determine an optimal vascular access site even with poor quality images.A miniature camera-ba ...

Medical combat training relies heavily on medical simulation, particularly for practicing highly invasive, life-saving medical procedures. However, the major drawbacks to medical simulators include high costs of replacement parts, limited repeated use, and lack of feedback. In Phase I, Triton Systems and its team demonstrated sensor technologies for real-time feedback and reusable materials for re ...

The high rate of non-medical Soldiers (Combat Lifesavers and self-aid/buddy-aid) performing field care necessitates additional medical training for those Warfighters. Unfortunately, most non-medical personnel are not provided with opportunities to practice medical skills in a high stress environment prior to completing them during live missions due to a lack of access to ruggedized high fidelity t ...

Tiger Tech Solutions, Inc. has developed a unique professional quality biomedical wearable monitoring system. The consumer-oriented devices available on the market today are not suitable for the needs of the warfighter. The Tiger Tech Warfighter Monitor (WFM) is a hands-free, continuous, real-time, and multi-vital wrist wearable that accurately monitors an individuals biometrics. The WFM is a high ...

SIMETRIs effort to design, develop, and commercialize the Joint Articulation and Reduction Simulator (JAARS) integrates existing commercial manikin technology, presents multiple dislocation scenarios, and makes use of a modular design that includes Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) and 3D printed components, with embedded sensors to provide student performance feedback as well as consumable expendit ...

Joint reduction is a key skill and is a core competency for orthopedic surgeons deploying as part of a trauma team.Current training options are limited to classroom instruction on uninjured persons due to lack of a suitable training simulator. The first true reduction performed by medical providers is on actual patients. This method of instruction prevents the trainee from developing the comfort a ...

Inner ear disorders, such as hearing loss and tinnitus, are significant public health issues in the United States and worldwide, with a considerably higher prevalence among military personnel. Such inner ear disorders, particularly when associated with acute noise or blast exposure in military personnel, require timely intervention. However, local drug delivery to treat the inner ear disorders req ...