HemSim - Hemostatic Agent Hemorrhage Control Simulator

Control of hemorrhage not amenable to tourniquets and/or pressure dressings is critical to combat casualty care at point of wounding. Disseminating the knowledge of when/how to use hemostatic agents and learning the physical skills to effectively apply them in conjunction with other hemorrhage-control skills are top tactics/techniques/practice (TTP) priorities. SimQuest proposes to develop a system using computational simulation of bleeding coupled with display and sensing technologies to enable practice in applying hemostatic agents with any type of physical training surrogate. This solution will make available low-cost, realistic hemorrhage-control training that will include application of real or surrogate dressings, bandages, hemostatic agents (granular and impregnated bandages) and computation of their resulting influence upon wound bleeding behavior. This will provide a more realistic approach to training than currently used, help eliminate the need for animal models and, if used with an intelligent tutoring system, could decrease the number of instructors needed to maintain effective learning outcomes. Further, quantitative performance measures will be generated by the system to allow uniform, objective assessment of trainee proficiency across instructors and institutions.