SBIR-STTR Award

Medical combat training relies heavily on medical simulation, particularly for practicing highly invasive, life-saving medical procedures. However, the major drawbacks to medical simulators include high costs of replacement parts, limited repeated use, and lack of feedback. Triton Systems proposes to design and develop reusable and reconfigurable soft tissue modules with integrated sensors to provide realistic tissue parts for patient simulators and performance assessment. Modules will be composed of materials that mechanically mimic soft tissues and allow for reuse (recycling parts for repeated use with compromised fidelity) and reconfiguration (simple process for easy customization of parts). A sensor system will be integrated to provide quantitative measurements of performance to guide medical training and provide after-action review.

Medical combat training relies heavily on medical simulation, particularly for practicing highly invasive, life-saving medical procedures. However, the major drawbacks to medical simulators include high costs of replacement parts, limited repeated use, and lack of feedback. In Phase I, Triton Systems and its team demonstrated sensor technologies for real-time feedback and reusable materials for realistic tissue modules for patient simulators. In Phase II, the team proposes to continue developing the sensor technologies and reusable modules to produce a fully integrated system that enhances medical training. Prototypes of the integrated system will be evaluated in user testing and validation to demonstrate the benefits to military medical training, particularly for critical lifesaving procedures.