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Predictive medicine has considerable potential to improve clinical outcomes during the crucial minutes and hours immediately following combat trauma. There is a requirement for an avatar solution that serves a multitude of functions for predictive medicine in the battlefield and beyond, including digital health data warehousing and prediction of immediate and long-term outcomes associated with var ...

VCS proposes to develop the Vigilant Warrior Health Avatar System (VWHAS) to enable warfighters to assess their own health status, to enable medics and command personnel to assess individual and unit health status and to enable scientists to study the health of warriors and improve models of warrior health.

The battle to derive value from twenty-first century healthcare leviathans is just beginning. As the world and its economies become increasingly globalized, the struggle to balance rising costs with access to quality healthcare is not just a problem for the United States and the Air Force Medical Service (AFMS). It is a problem wherever resources are constrained and process and bureaucracy trump r ...

Traumatic injury represents one of the most common reasons for mortality and accounts for 14.2% of all fatalities. Clinical management of trauma and emergency surgeries in combat casualties often require massive plasma transfusions. However, in critical c

Traumatic injury represents one of the most common reasons for mortality and accounts for 14.2% of all fatalities. Clinical management of trauma and emergency surgeries in combat casualties often require massive plasma transfusions. However, in critical c

Military personnel are exposed to broad range of toxic compounds. The militarys mission means that hazards cannot always be predicted since service often occurs in a wide array of uncontrolled environments. The usual first line of defense, area monitoring, is not applicable due to the variable workplace facing the military. Thus, personal dosimeters are required that measure a person's exposure to ...

A recent study of battlefield casualties found that over 90% of potentially survivable mortality cases were associated with hemorrhage. It is critical to maintain fluids and prevent hemorrhagic shock as soon as possible after the injury. However, medics must plan for and carry these bulky solutions to the point of injury, and additional casualties could exhaust limited available supplies. Mainstre ...

We propose to develop the Quality Cost Value Calculator (QCVC) to automatically evaluate the value of cycles of care by measuring the cost and quality (in terms of outcomes defined from the patients perspective and the commanders perspective) of care. QCVC will enable DoD health care providers to achieve higher reliability of care and will enable leadership and decision makers to guide process imp ...

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Between Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom, and Operation New Dawn, the total number of U.S. Casualties (those Wounded in Action) has exceeded 52,000 as of January 30, 2015. These numbers point to the fact that active warfighters in the battlefield are almost constantly exposed to the threat of external penetrating wounds. The goal of combat wound care is to protect open wounds u ...