Wired for sounding
From: Government Health IT - March / April 2011 - page 28
By: Peter Buxbaum

Special helmet measures brain for battlefield trauma, sends signals back to
base 

An American soldier is wounded in a blast somewhere in Southwest Asia, and
his helmet bears the scars of it on the outside. But there’s more to be
learned inside the helmet: a special sensor, when wired into a base-station
computer, measures the blast's temperature, and pressure. 

The US military is applying information technology to the quest of
identifying potential combat casualties quickly, with an eye toward
mitigating their trauma and extending their lives. Already thousands of US
warfighters wear helmets equipped with sensors that help identify traumatic
brain injury early. In coming months, tens of thousands more will be wearing
them.  

Read the entire article at:
http://govhealthit.com/Article.aspx?id=76438

Links:
Joseph Wang at UCSD
http://nanoengineering.ucsd.edu/faculty/jwang.html

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