CHARLES RIVER ANALYTICS, INC. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase II: DHP12-001

Description

Junctional and inguinal bleedingfrom battlefield injuries is a significant and challenging problem. Inventors have developed new types of tourniquets, includingthe Abdominal AorticJunctional Tourniquet™ (AAJT), the Combat Ready Clamp™ (CRoC), the SAM Junctional Tourniquet (SJT), and theJunctional Emergency Treatment Tool (JETT) to address theseinjuries.Whilethese new tourniquets have been developed,validated, and approved for use, trainingsystems that teach and refresh skills related to thesetechnologies have only been partially addressed. Thesetrainingsystems arevital becausetheseskills arecritical but infrequently used. To address these needs,we are developing Tourniquet Master Training(TMT), a scenario-based trainingsystem featuring(1) a reconfigurablesensor system linked to a software-based virtual mentor that provides objective assessment duringtraining, and (2) amobilementor that provides refresher training. TMT is a sensor-based system usable with a variety ofmanikins, and because of this flexibility, TMT is affordable and configurablefor future advances, including new application areas for both existing and future devices.