Currently, deployed medics are required to transport, maintain and be resupplied with liquid-based medications and materials that are heavy, expensive to transport, perishable and may require refrigeration.Many medications and materials are or will soon be available in concentrated or dehydrated formularies that require sterile water for injection (SWFI) to rehydrate for immediate use, one of the most important of which is Lactated Ringers (LR) solution.It would be far better to be able to use locally available water to reconstitute concentrated LR solutions, but portable technology that will allow battlefield medics to generate LR solution does not yet exist.In Phase I, TDA Research, Inc. investigated different water purification technologies for generating sterile water in the field to determine their water production rates and product quality. We successfully designed, built and tested a breadboard system that is low-cost, compact, requires no external power for generating IV quality LR solution and weighs a factor of 12 times less than standard 1 liter LR IV bags.In the proposed Phase II project, we will design, fabricate and scale-up the production of these units, and deliver a minimum of ten (10) preproduction prototypes for joint military utility assessment and independent lab verification.
