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The following web articles provide a comprehensive view of LSTAT through the eyes of current and potential users. Some of the articles go back as far as 3 years, but while the information may be dated, the vision is not. Note, at some sites, you may have to scroll down a page or click another link. Text excerpts from the websites are the copyrighted material of the respective publishers/authors, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Integrated Medical Systems, Inc.,.

July 21, 1999 - Top NCOs see combat medics' future (an article in the U.S. Army publication The Mercury). Dr. Fred Pearce of Walter Reed Army Institute of Research said the prototype has been used for 10 real surgeries during exercises at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. http://www.armymedicine.army.mil/armymed/data/news/99-06_merc/future.htm

June 7, 1999 - Surgery will come to the soldier (an article in Design News magazine). Life Support for Trauma and Transport (LSTAT) carriers, with self-contained ventilators and other equipment, stabilize patients before and after surgery and allow their transport. http://www.manufacturing.net/magazine/dn/

May 1999 - Military Infectious Disease - Treatment Tools. The LSTAT contains all of the necessary medical equipment, sensors, and devices necessary to carefully monitor critically injured patients, and supports surgical treatment with anesthesia, if needed. http://mrmc-www.army.mil/researchAreas/combat/treatment.html

April 1999 - Providing Medical Research and Material to America's Warfighters: An Interview with Maj. Gen. John S. Parker, Medical Corps, United States Army, Commander of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (an article in Military Medical Technology magazine). We made a recent decision to proceed with a low initial rate of production for LSTAT and conduct some rugged testing in a lot of environments. http://www.mmt-kmi.com/OnlineFeatures/Archives/3_2_VIP/3_2_vip.html

April 1999 - Army Modernization Plan The LSTAT provides a dramatically enhanced capability for far-forward and intermediary treatment of the wounded soldier during the first critical hours after injury, as well as providing an intensive care platform to provide/sustain resuscitation and stabilization during evacuation. http://www.cs.amedd.army.mil/ardguide/ampupdateprocess.htm

January 1999 - MediSim: Casualty Care on the Virtual Battlefield (Sandia National Labs). MediSim also provides a context in which advanced battlefield medicine technologies, such as the LSTAT trauma pod, and the PSM personal status monitor, may be prototyped and tested. http://www.sandia.gov/vris/MediSim.html

January 1999 - Force Medical Protection (factsheet of the Medical Readiness Division of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff). The cutting edge medical technology and extensive medical training provides medical solutions for military requirements to protect and sustain the force. Technological advances include: Life Support for Trauma and Transport (LSTAT) http://www.dtic.mil/jcs/j4/divisions/mrd/main_fmp7.htm

January 1999 - Leading Medical Information Technology into Y2K: Dr. Edward Martin, Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs (an article in Military Medical Technology). Life Support for Trauma and Transport (LSTAT): A compact, transportable, individualized medical care unit, featuring a suite of integrated state-of-the-art treatment and diagnostic technologies. http://akamai.tamc.amedd.army.mil/martin.html

December 1998 - 21st Century Medical Technology The LSTAT provides a means of projecting sophisticated trauma care forward towards the site of injury. This will increase survivability rates by reducing the time to delivery of life-saving definitive care. http://www.armymedicine.army.mil/armymed/data/lstat.htm

November 16, 1998 - Taking ER to the street (an article in Design News magazine). LSTAT military applications are obviously in battlefield wounded rescue and care. The device could see civilian use in search and rescue, disaster relief, and critical-care transport. http://www.manufacturing.net/magazine/dn/

November 1998 - Exercise at Walter Reed Tests Advanced Litter (an article in the U.S. Army's publication Mercury). This was the first time the Life Support for Trauma and Transport (LSTAT) was used for patient care since being approved by the Food and Drug Administration. http://www.armymedicine.army.mil/armymed/data/news/98-11_merc/lstat.htm

November 1998 - Life Support for Trauma and Transport (an article in the U.S. Army publication Nursing Informatics). It is designed to attach to a stretcher and has a canopy to protect patients in nuclear, biological, and chemical environments......Although the LSTAT is an Army project, the Air Force and Navy have expressed an interest in this device. http://160.151.186.19/departments/Nursing/sections/ni/general/news_letrs/1998/Nov98-2.cfm

October 2, 1998 - Military medicine prepares for fast moving warfare (an article in the U.S. Army publication The Stripe). During the exercise, Walter Reed Army Medical Center soldiers tested LSTAT under field operating conditions. http://www.dcmilitary.com/army/stripe/oct2/str_a10298.html

September 30, 1998 - Bringing the Hospital to the Patient: A Stretcher with "Smarts" - (an article from ABC Evening News: Medicine on the Cutting Edge). A team of engineers from Northrop Grumman, taking advantage of recent advances in computers and miniaturization, have come up with the "smart stretcher," a portable unit with nearly all the features needed to provide comprehensive emergency care in the toughest places. http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/dailynews/stretcher980930.html

September 25, 1998 - Walter Reed demonstrates mobile ICU (an article in the U.S. Army publication The Stripe). Acting as a mini-intensive care unit, LSTAT would allow surgery to be performed within a few miles of the action. This minimal life-saving surgery would stabilize the patient enough for a long-haul transport. The patient could then be transferred on the LSTAT to a combat support hospital anywhere in the world. http://www.dcmilitary.com/army/stripe/sept25/str_b92598.html

September 1998 - DEPMEDS (an article in the U.S. Army's critical care nursing publication A-Line). Awesome training took place on the LSTAT... http://www.wramc.amedd.army.mil/departments/nursing/sections/ccns/newsletters/Sep98-2.html

August 1998 - LSTAT (an article in the U.S. Army's critical care nursing publication A-Line). This device recently received FDA approval and its proponents at WRAIR have made it possible to begin patient use during our fall 85th GH Surgical FTX 21-25 September here at WRAMC. http://160.151.186.19/departments/Nursing/sections/ccns/newsletters/aug98-2.html

April 30, 1998 - Commercialization of NASA's TeleMedTech [Lists LSTAT among the diagnostic and therapeutic devices with potential applications in space.] http://www.pulsar.org/febweb/medicine/commercialization2.html

March 18, 1998 - Bringing Space Medicine Down to Earth (an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association). Life Support for Trauma and Transport: A self-contained "mini-intensive care unit in a stretcher." These patient-carrying devices will integrate with a variety of transport vehicles and provide vital sign monitoring for space or in-flight emergencies http://www.ama-assn.org/sci-pubs/journals/archive/jama/vol_279/no_11/mn081701.htm

January 28, 1998 - Battlefield Medicine (an article in the British publication Defence and Security Review). Life Support for Trauma and Transport (LSTAT) is a self-contained evacuation platform for life support that incorporates remote advanced diagnostics with rapid therapeutic intervention. The advanced life support evacuation system will provide critical patient monitoring and basic life-stabilising therapies to severely wounded personnel who would not otherwise survive battlefield evacuation. http://www.atalink.co.uk/DSR/CLIENT/battle.htm

November 12, 1997 - Platform Takes Technology to Battlefield (an article in the U.S. Army publication The Stripe). Not only is DoD interested in the project, but there are civilian health-care applications. Both the Federal Emergency Management Agency and rural health programs see the LSTAT as a natural for helping with disasters or medical evacuation from remote areas. http://www.armymedicine.army.mil/armymed/data/news/newspaper/m-lstat.htm

October 1997 - Joint Science and Technology Plan for Telemedicine Casualty stabilization and evacuation will be accomplished by developing and testing an intensive care support evacuation platform (LSTAT). Medical response will be accelerated by providing critical care stabilization through the Life Support for Trauma and Transport (LSTAT) system... http://www.tatrc.org/pages/library/papers/jstp/jstp1.html

July 26, 1997 - The Longest Hour (an article in the British publication The New Scientist). On top of its role on the battlefield, the LSTAT could be used to set up an instant intensive care unit close to the site of a civilian disaster. http://www.newscientist.com/ns/970726/npod_nf.html

March 3, 1997 - EXCELLENCE IN DESIGN: Portable trauma unit may save more soldiers (an article in Design News magazine). Compact intensive-care transport system, designed by Todd Kneale's team, gives battlefield-injured a fighting chance. http://www.manufacturing.net/magazine/dn/archives/1997/dn0303.97/05d5327.htm

October 22, 1996 - DARPA Advanced Biomedical Technologies: LSTAT. The LSTAT program objective is to combine advanced diagnostic and therapeutic technologies using proven systems integration experience to create a self-contained life support evacuation system. http://www.sainc.com/arpa/abmt/lstat.htm

Updated: June 23, 2005