Title: Rapid Assessment for Prehospital Triage of Evacuation and medical Resources (RAPTER) – Award #W81XWH-22-1-0610
Principal Investigator: Frank Guyette, MD, MPH and Joshua Brown, MD, MSc
Supporting Agency: Department of Defense
Project Goals: Overall objective is to help both military and civilian medics identify patients in the field likely to require Life Saving Interventions. These patients benefit from immediate evacuation and rapid access to Aero-Medical Transport. This tool will facilitate rapid triage, treatment, and appropriate allocation of resources for tactical evacuation, as well as utility in potential prolonged field care settings or long-haul transfers of casualties.
Specific Aims:
Develop a CDT to identify patients benefiting from early tactical evacuation using high dimensional continuous physiologic data and anatomic injury patterns that predict the need for LSI. Validate patterns of waveform physiologic data to predict need for early LSI using low SWaP, non-invasive wearable sensor technology. Validate our CDT to discriminate clinically injured patients that benefit from immediate evacuation evidenced by lower 24-hour mortality associated with shorter prehospital time.