{"id":81282,"date":"2018-08-04T06:42:20","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T13:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/lighter-leaner-lifesaving-af-tests-wearable-medical-tech"},"modified":"2018-08-04T10:00:08","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T17:00:08","slug":"lighter-leaner-lifesaving-af-tests-wearable-medical-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/lighter-leaner-lifesaving-af-tests-wearable-medical-tech","title":{"rendered":"Lighter, leaner, lifesaving: AF tests wearable medical tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lighter-leaner-lifesaving-af-tests-wearable-medical-tech.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wearable medical technology is designed to be small and lightweight to minimize additional burden on medical Airmen and the warfighter, whether they are on a remote battlefield or aboard an aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWearables provide greater accessibility,\u201d said Dr. David Burch, a research biomedical engineer and the medical technology solutions team lead for the En Route Care Medical Technology Solutions Research Group, 711th HPW. \u201cAn aircraft has a very tight space and weight limit to maintain performance, and battlefield medics need to carry everything they use. Wearables provide accessibility to the human in a way that is better form, fit, and function.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One wearable device that achieves that accessibility is a tissue oxygenation sensor, developed jointly with a private company. This small, soft, injectable sensor lets medics determine if a patient is able to be medically evacuated by assessing how well their blood transports oxygen to tissue.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcemedicine.af.mil\/News\/Display\/Article\/1587672\/lighter-leaner-lifesaving-af-tests-wearable-medical-tech\/\">https:\/\/www.airforcemedicine.af.mil\/News\/Display\/Article\/158...ical-tech\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wearable medical technology is designed to be small and lightweight to minimize additional burden on medical Airmen and the warfighter, whether they are on a remote battlefield or aboard an aircraft. \u201cWearables provide greater accessibility,\u201d said Dr. David Burch, a research biomedical engineer and the medical technology solutions team lead for the En Route Care [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-military","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81288,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81282\/revisions\/81288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}