MAINSTREAM ENGINEERING CORP — Department of Defense SBIR Phase II: DHP16-008
MAINSTREAM ENGINEERING CORP — SBIR Phase II award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $999,992
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Defense Health Program
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase II
- Topic
- DHP16-008
- Solicitation
- 2016.1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- FL
- Period
- 2017-09-25 → 2020-02-24
Description
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) impacts over two million Americans annually, and is the signature injury of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts. Therapeutic hypothermia is a promising neuroprotective technique for treating TBI, but reduced body temperature is a threat to soldiers in military operations with multiple injuries. Mainstream has proposed a novel heat pump cooling system that overcomes the key limitations of existing systems and provides selective brain cooling without impacting body temperature. This will provide TBI treatment in a compact, portable system that can be applied at the point of injury and during transport without the accompanying negative side effects associated with reduced whole body temperature. Mainstream has partnered with Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute to continue development and testing of the system.