Development of a Junctional Tourniquet

Future, multi-domain operational environments, in which patient care needs may exceed healthcare provider capacity, will benefit from tools that enable novice, non-medical personnel to correctly perform emergency hemorrhage control procedures. InnoVital Systems, building upon a successful layperson extremity tourniquet development effort which saw lay participants successful apply the novel tourniquet without any training 93% of the time, proposes to develop an improved, user-friendly junctional tourniquet that may be quickly and correctly applied by users with little or no training. In the Phase I effort, we will iteratively design, prototype and bench test a junctional tourniquet device with features that, from our direct experience, are known to be operable by lay users. The final, evolved design will be demonstrated to government sponsors. Our unique experience with the development and commercialization of procedural tools for pre-hospital and in-hospital trauma care, in-house emergency medicine and device engineering capabilities, and relationships with relevant industry partners puts InnoVital in the best position for delivering a useful and marketable medical device.