VCURES and VCU Medical Center Chosen to Serve as Training Site for U.S. Special Forces Medic Training
The Joint Special Operations Medical Training Center (JSOMTC) has chosen VCURES and the VCU Medical Center to serve as a clinical site for training of its Special Forces Medics. JSOMTC is located at Fort Bragg , North Carolina and is part of the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School ( http://www.training.sfahq.com/ ). Full Story. |
VCU and VCURES Awarded HRSA Bioterrorism Training Grant: Results in Development of the Virginia Disaster Readiness Center
VCURES successfully partnered with several other VCU Centers including its Medical Informatics and Technology Consortium (MITAC) ( http://www.meditac.com/ ) and the VCU Office of Faculty Development and Instruction ( http://www.medschool.vcu.edu/intranet/facdev/f-and-id.html ) to be awarded one of 19 U.S. Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) grants designed to provide bioterrorism training to first responders. Full Story. |
Hemodyne Inc. Licenses One Handed Tourniquet and Other Acute Hemostasis Technology Developed by VCURES
Hemodyne Inc. ( www.hemodyne.com ) of Richmond , VA has announced that it will license two acute hemostatic technologies being developed by VCURES. These technologies include a unique one-handed tourniquet and a product line of topical agents designed to stop acute bleeding in a large variety of situations ranging from external wounds to massive internal bleeding. Full Story. |
VCURES Awarded Two DOD DURIP Grants
VCURES has been awarded two Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) grants from the Department of Defense. The 213 awards to 92 academic institutions are expected to range from $50,000 to $900,000 and average $205,000. DURIP supports the purchase of state-of-the-art equipment that augments current university capabilities or develops new university capabilities to perform cutting-edge defense research. DURIP meets a critical need by enabling university researchers to purchase scientific equipment costing $50,000 or more to conduct DoD-relevant research. The researchers generally have difficulty purchasing instruments costing that much under their research contracts. Full Story. |
VCURES to Participate in Multicenter Trial of the Use of Blood Substitutes in Trauma
VCURES and the VCU Medical Center's Division of Trauma Surgery has been chosen to participate in a select 20 city trial examining the use of artificial blood in critically injured trauma victims before they reach the hospital. The artificial blood called PolyHeme ä is made by Northfield Laboratories Inc. Full Story. |
VCU School of Nursing and VCURES Team to Win DOD Triservice Nursing Grant to Prevent Ventilator Associated Pneumonia in Trauma Victims
The Department of Defense's TriService Nursing Research Program has awarded the VCU School of Nursing and VCURES a two-year grant for $449,842 to test the effect of a single oral intervention to reduce pneumonia in trauma victims. The grant entitled: A peri-intubation intervention to reduce oral flora & VAP, will test the effect of a single dose of chlorhexidine gluconate delivered within one hour of endotracheal tube intubation on the development of pathogenic oral microbial flora and the development of ventilator associated pneumonia in traumatic injury up to 72 hours after intubation. Full Story. |
VCURES to Institute System Wide Early Goal Directed Therapy Approach to Severe Sepsis
VCURES has announced that it will institute a medical center wide clinical approach to the treatment of severe sepsis utilizing an aggressive hemodynamic monitoring approach termed Early Goal Directed Therapy (EGDT). Sepsis is a serious condition in which the body's circulation begins to deteriorate leading to functional failures of critical organ systems. Full Story. |
VCURES Investigator Awarded NIH Minority Supplement Grant to Study Sickle Cell Vasoocclusive Crisis as a Shock State
Dr. Imo Aisiku, senior VCURES fellow and assistant professor of Emergency Medicine is the recipient of an NIH Minority Supplement award made to Dr. Wallace Smith to allow Dr. Aiskiu to participate and train as a part of Dr. Smiths NIH PiSCES (Pain in Sickle Cell Epidemiology Study). The award will allow Dr. Aisiku and VCURES the opportunity to begin to develop a program which allows Sickle Cell Anemia and its vasocclusive crisis to be examined as a microvasculature state of shock. Full Story. |
Two Companies Partner with VCURES to Win SBIR Grants
Two Virginia Companies have partnered with VCURES to be awarded SBIR grants. Both efforts utilized VCURES expertise in undersea medicine and microvascular oxygen delivery. Orincon Inc ( http://www.orincon.com/index.cfm ), a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin make the EDAC vascular sonar device for detection and characterization of intravacular bubbles. Under the direction of VCURES Director Dr. Bruce Spiess, VCURES will use its sophisticated models of decompression sickness to test the device and compare it to other complex hemodynamic measurements. Luna Innovations Inc, ( http://www.lunainnovations.com/ ) of Hampton Roads, VA and VCURES also partnered to develop special ultrasound technology to assess tissue (as opposed to bubble formation). VCURES is a sub-awardee for both grants. This project will again, make use of VCURES expertise in decompression illness. Full Story. |
VCURES Spins off Educational Business
VCURES recently spun off a business unit named RESUS. RESUS LLC ( http://www.resus.us/ ), will assist in transitioning educational research and products developed by VCURES to market either directly or by developing strategic partnerships with other companies. The company will also offer consultation services for Resuscitation Science, Medical Simulation, Blood Substitutes, Advanced Airway Training, Weapons of Mass Destruction and Mass Casualty Education, Space Medicine and Physiology, Forensic and Legal Medicine, and Tactical Medicine. Full Story. |
VCURES Presents Research at Microcirculation and Mitochondrial Dysfunction Symposium
VCURES was selected to present its research utilizing resonance Raman and fluorescence spectroscopy at the Microcirculation and Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Intensive Care Medicine symposium which was held preceding the 2003 European Society of Intensive Care Medicine meeting in Amsterdam. VCURES Senior Fellows Dr. Ivo Torres Filho, MD PhD, and Dr. R. Wayne Barbee presented at the meeting. Full Story. |
VCURES Launches Program Examining Congestive Heart Failure as a Shock State
VCURES is now undertaking an effort to comprehensively characterize and study congestive heart failure (CHF) as a shock state. Both laboratory and clinical studies are in progress examining global and microvascular oxygen transport phenomena of the disease in its baseline, acute decompensation, and acute treatment stages. Full Story. |
VCURES Investigator Awarded VCU AD Williams Grant for Trauma Study
Senior VCURES Fellow Dr. Ajai Malhotra, Associate Director of Trauma and Critical Care of the Division of Trauma and Critical Care of the Department of Surgery, was awarded $15,000 from the AD Williams Trust Fund in support of his application "Effect of L-Arginine Infusion on the Inflammatory Response Following Hemorrhagic Shock and Abdominal Compartment Syndrome in Swine." This use of L-arginine for this combination of injuries represents a very important and novel approach to improve survival from severe hemorrhage. Full Story. |
VCURES Associate Director Awarded Immigrant of the Year Award
VCURES Associate Director Dr. Rao Ivatury was awarded the 2003 Washington Immigrant Achievement Award. Dr. Ivatury is Professor of Surgery and Emergency Medicine and is Chairman of the Division of Trauma Surgery, Surgical Critical Care and Emergency General Surgery in the VCU Department of Surgery. The award is given annualty by the American Immigration Law Foundation in honor of outstanding contributions by immigrants. Full Story. |
VCURES Helping NASA Simulate Emergency Medical Procedures in Zero-Gravity
VCURES simulator experts are assisting NASA in development of a realistic training platform for evaluation of procedures in microgravity. As part of an ongoing project with NASA, the Medical Education Technologies, Inc (METI, Sarasota Fl.) engineers, with medical advisors VCURES Director of Simulation and Informatics Dr Marsh Cuttino, and Dr Boisseau Murray of Penn State have been working to produce a simulator that can function as a platform for medical simulation and training in the absence of gravity. Full Story. |
VCURES Associate Director Named to DOD Combat Casualty Care Panel
Dr. Kevin Ward, Associate VCURES Director has been named to the U.S. Army's Combat Casualty Care Research Program's Advisory Panel on Development of Advanced Capabilities for Combat Medics ( http://www.usaccc.org/index.jsp ). The overarching focus of this particular program is to conduct basic and applied research to discover and develop new knowledge and devices that enhance combat medic capabilities for triage, diagnosis, and decision-making relative to combat casualty management. Full Story. |
VCURES Awarded $100,000 Supplement by DARPA for Work on Unique Metabolic Down Regulation Strategy for Shock
VCURES was awarded a $100,000 supplement by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) to continue its groundbreaking work on a unique patent pending strategy aimed at reducing the body's need for oxygen during shock and to prevent subsequent reperfusion injury. The strategy is aimed at buying precious time for the victim of traumatic shock, especially on the battlefield setting where triage, transport, and treatment times are significantly longer than in the civilian setting. Full Story. |
VCURES Signs Cooperative Research Agreement with U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases
VCURES recently entered into a cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease (USAMRIID http://www.usamriid.army.mil/ ) to examine the potential of immunomodulation as a treatment for chemically induced wounds. The agreement will allow VCURES' experts in immunology and acute wound care to collaborate with USAMRIID experts in chemical weapons. Full Story. |
VCURES Has Strong Presence at 2003 ATACCC Meeting
VCURES once presented more scientific work than any other nonmilitary institution at the Department of Defenses' 2003 Advanced Technologies Applications for Combat Casualty Care (ATACCC) meeting in St. Petersburg , Florida . The ATACCC ( http://www.usaccc.org/ataccc/ ) is the DOD's premier research meeting on combat casualty care in which state of the art research on pathophysiology, diagnostics, and treatment are presented and discussed. Full Story. |
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