ABSTRACT
This Annual Report summarizes four projects that are encompassed within the awarded proposal entitled United States Navy Joint Capability Resource on En Route Care. The first of these projects (Project 1) is entitled: Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta: Can Nurses and Corpsmen Perform this Skill for En Route Care: A Pilot Study. Project 1A Physiologic Effects of Hypobaria and REBOA in a Swine (Sus scrofa domestica) Hemorrhage Model is added on to Project 1. Project 2 is entitled: Evaluation of Human Factors Issues Relating to Providing En Route Care Within the V-22 Osprey Aircraft. Project 3 is entitled: Search and Rescue Records Modernization and Evaluation. Project 1 hypothesizes that provided proper training and practice, ERC nurses and Special Operations Independent Duty Corpsmen (IDC) can successfully acquire adequate knowledge on the use of REBOA, and successfully demonstrate skill placement competency among using simulation and cadaveric models. Project 1A: is determining the effects of altitude on REBOA placement. Project 2 will explore the working space challenges confronting medical providers in the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft;a medical care evacuation transportation aircraft. Project 3 is transforming approximately 45 years of the Navys SAR Model Managers (SARMM) historical records into a comprehensive SAR electronic database and developing a secure web-based electronic data collection system for new reports.