HARNESSING THE POWER OF SMALL


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the last few decades, one of the biggest challenges that medics still face is uncon- trolled bleeding. RevMedx Inc., a small company in Wilsonville, OR, designed a first-of-its-kind hemostatic device called XStat for the battlefield treatment of gun- shot and shrapnel wounds. It consists of a syringe 30 mm in diameter filled with compressed mini-sponges that, when in contact with blood or other fluid, expand up to 10 times their size and fill a cavity within 15 seconds of contact.


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SMALL OPERATOR MAKES BIG DIFFERENCE An iRobot 510 PackBot searches for explosive devices under a vehicle in Djibouti. Members of the Djibouti Armed Forces and explosive ordnance disposal technicians assigned to Camp Lemonnier learned how to operate the robot, an example of a capability that small business has made possible. (U.S. Air Force photo by SSgt Maria Bowman, 375th Air Mobility Wing)


sponges are designed to create


a temporary barrier to blood flow and provide hemostatic pressure until the wounded can receive surgical care. Using a


syringelike applicator, a medic can


insert one end of the tube into a wound, push down on the plunger and release the sponges. To prevent the accidental retention of a mini-sponge in the wound, each one contains a radiopaque marker for easy detection with X-ray imaging, because X-rays will not pass through the marker. With approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the com- pany made its first shipment of the XStat device to the U.S. military in April 2015.


FILLING A GAP


A hemostatic device called XStat, devel- oped by a small business in Oregon called RevMedx, addresses one of the challenges that medics still face on the battlefield: uncontrolled bleeding. XStat aids in the battlefield treatment of gunshot and shrapnel wounds by allowing medics to inject compressed mini-sponges into open wounds. The mini-sponges expand up to 10 times their size and fill the cavity within 15 seconds of contact. (Photo courtesy of RevMedX)


Te Hontek Corp., a small business in South Windsor, CT, received the U.S. Army Aviation Association of America’s Materiel Readiness Award in 2009 for significant and lasting contributions to Army aviation by providing a solution to the severe and expensive damage to helicopter rotor blades caused by sand and debris erosion. Hontek developed and produced the HC05XP1 coat- ing system, based on a heat-conductive, de-icing-capable, sprayable and mold- able polyurethane, to protect rotor blades from rain and sand with no in-flight operational limitations.


+ 136 Army AL&T Magazine January-March 2016


Gone were blade tape, daily blade mainte- nance and extensive downtime based on


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