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Navy corpsmen have helped achieve a remarkable survival rate for the warfighters, civilians, and enemy combatants whom they serve. But this success masks significant challenges. Training corpsmen is costly; it addresses primarily the acquisition of skills (rather than maintenance); it fails to convey the perceptual and cognitive skills to handle complex combat wounds; the design of training techno ...

Defense Health Agency (DHA) is seeking a multi-functional diagnostic to determine blood coagulopathy in real time at point-of-care (POC). Blood coagulopathy, resulting in uncontrolled bleeding, is implicated in 80% of operating room deaths and 50% of trau

Inhalation injury is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in both military personnel and the civilian population. Bronchoscopy, currently the gold standard for assessment of inhalation injury, fails to provide submucosal and functional tissue information, both of which are essential for improved prognostic information. Physical Sciences Inc., in collaboration with University of North Caro ...

The goal of this STTR effort is to design a portable, multimodal, non-contact imaging system for burn depth diagnosis and tracking of wound healing. UC and Vanderbilt University will build upon our previous efforts demonstrated via porcine model studies to combine results from structural B-mode optical coherence tomography (OCT) images and functional data (pulse speckle imaging- PSI) to classify d ...

Selecting the level of debridement sufficient to minimize inflammation and determining the optimal treatment in a timely fashion is critical given the risks of infection and sepsis. Grafting success is dependent on the removal of all necrotic tissue and requires the presence of highly-vascularized granulation tissue. The goal of early debridement for grafting is to remove all the devitalized tis ...

Current prosthetic feet produce much less peak mechanical power than the able-bodied foot/ankle and release only about half of the mechanical energy generated during gait.This leads to higher energy expenditure among amputees as compared to able-bodied individuals.In addition, the lack of prosthetic ankle range of motion negatively impacts users abilities to navigate slopes and uneven terrain.Ther ...

The Defense Health Program seeks to improve the lives of service members suffering below knee amputations through the development of a non-powered lower extremity prosthesis designed to restore range of motion and power generation to that of an uninjured anatomical ankle. Current passive systems are still in early stages of development and typically only address one aspect of what the Defense Heal ...

Traumatic injuries account for 30% of all life years lost in the US and is the leading cause of death for people under 46 years of age. Uncontrolled bleeding or hemorrhage constitute 30-40% of trauma related deaths and are considered to be a major cause o

Accurate assessment of burn depth and surface area are important to clinical decision-making regarding treatment. Initial assessment determines fluid requirements and transportation decisions to distant-care facilities. The clinician must determine if the wound will heal itself or whether excision and grafting are necessary for optimal wound healing. The standard of care remains visual inspection ...

Recent advances in augmented reality (AR) offer valuable opportunities for simulationbased training outside of a medical simulator facility. The potential benefits for combat casualty care training are particularly powerful, as over 100,000 U.S. military medical personnel must be prepared to quickly respond to a broad range of injuries at any point in time. We propose to develop and evaluate a hig ...