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, acute treatment of extremity (arms and legs) and facial injuries, treatment of severe burn wounds, treatment of single and multiple organ failures due to trauma, and predictive indicators and decision aids for life support systems. Post-evacuation medical research focuses on continued care and rehabilitative medicine for extremity, 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 six areas: (1) Damage Control Resuscitation (2) Combat Trauma Therapies (3) Traumatic Brain Injury (4) Combat Critical Care Engineering (5) Clinical and Rehabilitative Medicine (6) Underbody Blast Injury Assessment All research is conducted in compliance with 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 Assistant Secretary of Defense, Research and Engineering Science and Technology, focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. Work in this project is performed by the United States Army Dental & Trauma Research Detachment (USADTRD) and the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research (USAISR), Joint Base San Antonio-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. Efforts in this project support the Soldier Portfolio and the principal areas of Combat Casualty Care and Military Operational Medicine.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2016
- Source ID
- 840_0603002A_3_2040_PB_2016
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