COMBAT INJURY MGMT

Abstract

This project matures, demonstrates, and validates promising medical technologies and methods to include control of severe bleeding, treatment for traumatic brain injury (TBI), revival and stabilization of trauma patients, and prognostics and diagnostics for life support systems. Post-evacuation medical research focuses on continued care and rehabilitative medicine for extremity (arms and legs), facial/maxillary (jaw bone), and ocular (eye) trauma and leveraging recent innovations in regenerative medicine and tissue engineering techniques. Research conducted in this project focuses on the following five areas: (1) Damage Control Resuscitation (2) Combat Trauma Therapies (3) Combat Critical Care Engineering (4) Clinical and Rehabilitative Medicine (5) Traumatic Brain Injury All research is conducted in compliance with US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requirements for licensure of medical products for human use. Promising efforts identified through applied research conducted under PE 0602787A, project 874, are further matured under this project. Promising results identified under this project 840 are further matured under PE 0603807A, project 836. The cited work is consistent with the Director, Defense Research and Engineering Strategic Plan, the Army Modernization Strategy, and the Army Science and Technology Master Plan. Work in this project is performed by the US Army Institute of Surgical Research (USAISR), Fort Sam Houston, TX; the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR), Silver Spring, MD; and the Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine (AFIRM), Fort Detrick, MD.

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2012
• Source ID: 840_0603002A_3_2040_PB_2012

Tags

Fields of Study

• Medicine

Readers

• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
• Neurotrauma and Rehabilitation Medicine.
• Trauma or Military Medicine