NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operation (NEEMO) 12: Collaborative Accelerated Medical Technology Development

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles R. Doarn ◽  
Timothy J. Broderick
Keyword(s):  
Medical Technology ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Extreme Environment ◽  
Mission Operation

Medical Technology Development in the 1990s

1995 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 1321-1323
Author(s):  
JERRY C. GRIFFIN ◽  
KURT C. WHEELER ◽  
GENA K. SEARS
Keyword(s):  
Medical Technology ◽  
Technology Development

scholarly journals Human Adaptations to Multiday Saturation on NASA NEEMO

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew P. Koutnik ◽  
Michelle E. Favre ◽  
Karina Noboa ◽  
Marcos A. Sanchez-Gonzalez ◽  
Sara E. Moss ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cerebral Blood Flow Velocity ◽  
Extreme Environments ◽  
Extreme Environment ◽  
Human Adaptation ◽  
Space Agency ◽  
Sympathetic Modulation ◽  
Environmental Extremes ◽  
Adaptation Processes ◽  
External Stimuli ◽  
Mission Operation

Human adaptation to extreme environments has been explored for over a century to understand human psychology, integrated physiology, comparative pathologies, and exploratory potential. It has been demonstrated that these environments can provide multiple external stimuli and stressors, which are sufficient to disrupt internal homeostasis and induce adaptation processes. Multiday hyperbaric and/or saturated (HBS) environments represent the most understudied of environmental extremes due to inherent experimental, analytical, technical, temporal, and safety limitations. National Aeronautic Space Agency (NASA) Extreme Environment Mission Operation (NEEMO) is a space-flight analog mission conducted within Florida International University’s Aquarius Undersea Research Laboratory (AURL), the only existing operational and habitable undersea saturated environment. To investigate human objective and subjective adaptations to multiday HBS, we evaluated aquanauts living at saturation for 9–10 days via NASA NEEMO 22 and 23, across psychologic, cardiac, respiratory, autonomic, thermic, hemodynamic, sleep, and body composition parameters. We found that aquanauts exposed to saturation over 9–10 days experienced intrapersonal physical and mental burden, sustained good mood and work satisfaction, decreased heart and respiratory rates, increased parasympathetic and reduced sympathetic modulation, lower cerebral blood flow velocity, intact cerebral autoregulation and maintenance of baroreflex functionality, as well as losses in systemic bodyweight and adipose tissue. Together, these findings illustrate novel insights into human adaptation across multiple body systems in response to multiday hyperbaric saturation.

scholarly journals Medical Technology Development and Approval

Circulation ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 109 (25) ◽  
pp. 3078-3080 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dean J. Kereiakes ◽  
James T. Willerson
Keyword(s):  
Medical Technology ◽  
Technology Development

Building Business Process on Tele-Ultrasonography: An International Collaboration of Medical Technology Development

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (7) ◽  
pp. 6861-6865
Author(s):  
Edrial N Eddin ◽  
Budi Wiweko ◽  
Wisnu Jatmiko ◽  
Anom Bowolaksono
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
International Collaboration ◽  
Medical Technology ◽  
Technology Development

Divers Augmented Vision Display (DAVD)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard J. Manley ◽  
Dennis G. Gallagher ◽  
William W. Hughes ◽  
Allie M. Pilcher
Keyword(s):  
Technology Development ◽  
Visual Display ◽  
Extreme Environment ◽  
Text Messages ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Naval Research ◽  
Operational Environment ◽  
Panama City ◽  
Rapid Prototyping And Manufacturing ◽  
Display Systems

Military diving operations are routinely conducted in what can be one of the most inhospitable environments on the planet, frequently characterized by zero visibility. The inability to clearly see the immediate operational environment has historically been a serious limitation to manned diving operations — whether the mission is ship husbandry, under water construction, salvage, or scientific research. U.S. Navy diving is an integral part of the nation’s defense strategy with a continuing requirement to conduct manned intervention in the water column. To ensure technical superiority across the entire spectrum of diving operations we must identify, exploit, and de velop technology to advance the state-of-the-art in diving equipment. This can only be achieved by investing in, and supporting, focused research and development with specific goals to further diving capabilities. Under a project sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), the Naval Surface Warfare Center-Panama City Division (NSWC PCD) has de veloped a prototype see-through head-up display system for a U. S. Navy diving helmet — the Divers Augmented Vision Display (DAVD). The DAVD system uses waveguide optical display modules that couple images from a micro display into a waveguide optic, translate the images through a series of internal reflections, finally exiting toward the diver’s eye providing a magnified, see-through virtual image at a specific distance in front of the diver. The virtual images can be critical information and sensor data including sonar images, ship husbandry and underwater construction schematics, enhanced navigation displays, augmented reality, and text messages. NSWC PCD is the U.S. Navy’s leading laboratory for research, development, testing, evaluation, and technology transition of diver visual display systems; with unique facilities for rapid prototyping and manufacturing, human systems integration and extreme environment testing. Along with NSWC PCD, the Navy Experimental Diving Unit (NEDU), and Naval Diving and Salvage Training Center (NDSTC) are co-located tenant commands at the Naval Support Activity Panama City (NSA PC). This paper provides a brief background on the development of diver head-up display systems, waveguide optical display technology, development of the DAVD prototype, results of diver evaluations, and recommendations for accelerated development of this game changing capability.

scholarly journals Strategic Intellectual Property Management and spin offs during Medical Device Innovation and commercialisation

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-51
Author(s):  
Suchita Markan
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Medical Device ◽  
Medical Technology ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Interesting Case ◽  
Ip Protection ◽  
Competitive Edge ◽  
Technology Innovations ◽  
Innovation Space ◽  
Start Ups

Intellectual Property (IP) protection for medical technology innovations is a milestone, generally undermined by Start-ups. Effective and timely IP protection acts as a lifeline for entrepreneurs/start-ups as it not only helps them attract investments and get competitive advantage but also enables marketing tie-ups and potential acquisition by larger companies. This article delineates the strategies for effective IP protection during different phases of technology development to enable medical technology innovators unlock IP potential of their innovations thereby gain competitive edge as well as reap financial rewards. Some interesting case studies and experience sharing by entrepreneurs have also been included for empirical understanding and to serve as practical tools for innovators working in medical device innovation space.

Hyperbaric hyperoxia alters innate immune functional properties during NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operation (NEEMO)

2015 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 52-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Strewe ◽  
B.E. Crucian ◽  
C.F. Sams ◽  
B. Feuerecker ◽  
R.P. Stowe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Functional Properties ◽  
Extreme Environment ◽  
Innate Immune ◽  
Hyperbaric Hyperoxia ◽  
Mission Operation

scholarly journals Public Interest in New Medical Discoveries Analyses of US and European Citizens` Interest in and Knowledge of Medical Discoveries and New Science and Technology Issues

2004 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-85
Author(s):  
Minah Kang Kim
Keyword(s):  
Medical Technology ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Medical Science ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Expenditures ◽  
New Science ◽  
Medical Technologies ◽  
Conceptual Structures ◽  
The Us

The rapidly rising cost of health care has been an important policy concern in the United States, and the continuing explosion of medical research and increased utilization of medical technology are believed to be important factors driving up the costs. Several studies have implied that the US's continuous expansion of medical technology development and utilization might derive from Americans' strong commitment to medical innovation and a willingness to pay for expensive medical technologies. Using the data on the US and European citizens' attitudes toward other sciences and technologies and new medical discoveries, this study explores why Americans have such strong devotion to medical technologies. Specifically, this study examines whether the high level of interest that Americans have in new medical discoveries comes from their interest in new inventions or in new scientific discoveries and new science and technology issues show that the conceptual structures and determinants of the American public's interest in medical issues are different from those in science and technology issues. This pattern does not occur among European citizens. The US Government's decisions on public expenditures for medical science compared to those for science and technology issues seem to reflect the public's attitudes toward thses issues.

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