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The confluence of genetics, mobile computing, wearable sensors and computational physiology has started the revolution in personalized medicine with huge civilian and military prospects to promote health and reduce costs. The goal of this project is to develop and demonstrate a Warfighter Health Avatar (WHA): a framework and physiology based modeling tools of a warfighter body to enable assessment ...

Major advances in prosthetic devices and aggressive rehabilitation over recent years have enabled many warfighters experiencing amputation to regain functional mobility, and often return to full active duty. A critical step to ensuring that these prosthetic devices function seamlessly with the patient is the initial alignment process. This alignment process is often iterative and time consuming, a ...

Biological tissues collection is problematic and risky even under ideal conditions: when collection occurs in remote locations, or by minimally-trained personnel, as may occur in response to an emerging disease threat, risks are magnified. This proposal addresses this issue by developing a Field Fixation Unit (FFU) for specimen collection that utilizes single-use capsules pre-loaded with fixative. ...

Injuries to the chest occur in about 60% of all trauma cases and roughly 90% can be treated without surgical intervention. With rib fractures or lung damage, blood often accumulates in the pleural space between the lung and the chest wall. Current treatment guidelines suggest that a tube be placed through the chest wall to drain the collection. Unfortunately, in about 15-20% of these patients, the ...

Abstract:Warfighters are being pushed further and further afield, leaving them outside the range of medical experts. Existing Virtual Interactive Presence and Augmented Reality (VIPAR) systems have shown great potential in making medical expertise available in the field, but require network and hardware performance characteristics that are typically unavailable in combat scenarios. Expensive and s ...

One of the most important infectious diseases affecting the health of military recruits is adenovirus, which causes acute outbreaks of respiratory disease in military facilities incapacitating personnel, burdening hospitals, disrupting military operations and increasing medical costs. We propose to continue the development of a new generation of adenovirus vaccines based on adenovirus-like particl ...

An enormous military and civilian need exists to develop capabilities for salvage, preservation and re-implantation of genitourinary tissues and especially reproductive organs. Yet methods for salvaging and clinical banking of whole testes are non-existent, while approaches to bank whole ovaries have been attempted thus far and have resulted in mixed successes. Reproductive organ banking has yet t ...

Vascular trauma is the leading cause of death in military environments and hemorrhage is the major preventable cause of mortality among trauma patients. Recent experience from Iraq and Afghanistan has demonstrated improved 24-h and 30-day survival in combat casualties requiring early massive transfusion. Unlike plasma and erythrocytes, which can be cold stored for longer time periods, platelets ca ...

Hypres is pleased to submit this proposal to continue its Phase II SBIR program and complete the development of a combat-area portable digital MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) system capable of high-resolution Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) diagnosis in field hospitals. This sequential Phase IIc SBIR program will produce and demonstrate a near production ready state-of-the-art portable MRI system at ...

VitaMe Technologies Inc. and Cornell University will develop the FePhone - a point-of-care diagnostic system for iron status determination.The FePhone comprises of (1) a test cartridgewhich accepts the blood sample and performs the test, (2) a TidBit readera custom portable hardware system developed by Cornell which operates the test, and (3) a mobile appwhich provides step-by-step instructions fo ...