Introducing the DARPA Triage Challenge (DTC)! Hear from program manager Dr. Jean-Paul Chretien on how the DTC is using a series of challenge events to spur development of novel physiological features for medical triage.
The DARPA Triage Challenge aims to drive breakthrough innovations in identification of “signatures” of injury that will help medical responders perform scalable, timely, and accurate triage. Of particular interest are mass casualty incidents (MCIs), in both civilian and military settings, when medical resources are limited relative to the need.
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The triage is is a critical part of mass casualty response. Those initial decisions of how urgent the patient is for medical care and what sort of medical care they need are life and death. Because if we get those wrong, then people won't get the care they need when they need it. We see an opportunity to build on advances in several technical disciplines. Including robotics and sensors and artificial intelligence. All of these are core to the DARPA Triage Challenge and revolutionize the way this is done and deliver better tools to medics and 1st responders so they can do triage better and faster and ultimately save more lives. The vision that we have for the capabilities that are developed in the DARPA Triage Challenge has a couple of parts. 1st, imagine a large scale mass casualty incident, thousands of people immediately injured, say an earthquake, and you have people who are buried under rubble and you have dust and it might be in the dark. This would be an incredibly difficult situation for the way we do triage. Today, there would only be a few responders on the scene initially, and they would have to find the victims and assess them and figure out how to use the limited medical resources they have on hand. So our vision would look more like this. There are a few responders on the scene, but they're able to control a fleet of autonomous systems, drones and robots on the ground. These are equipped with various types of sensors like camera and infrared and audio capabilities and radar. And these systems on their own are able to go out and work cooperatively to find the victims and quickly assess their injuries and relay that information back to the responders. So there's few responders on the scene would know where the casualties are and they would be able to prioritize their actions and provide the life saving care before it's too late. The other part gets to the need. We have to be able to anticipate medical needs better. Imagine that that initial stage of triage has happened and responders have identified victims and now they're providing care and they're monitoring them. But there are still only a few medical people on the scene. So we could imagine that they would place wearable sensors on all of these casualties and these sensors would autonomously monitor the victims Physiology and would alert the medic when it picks up on physiological features that indicate. That that person is going to need medical care in the next few minutes or hours. And so then the responders could plan for that. If they had the ability to evacuate that person to a higher level of medical care, they could do that. So in the DARPA Triage Challenge, we're developing the algorithms that ultimately could be used to detect those anticipatory physiological features. We haven't seen technology innovation in triage in a long time, and we see a real opportunity here to develop. Revolutionary new tools that will help save lives.
I briefed through the rules and regs for this yesterday. Having had the opportunity to witness some results of a challenge and wanting to congratulate a team only to see they didn't qualify their patients by re identifying the patients over the course of the past 3 years. Then my concern was really sparked after having spoke with Director Root and other STO personnel several times over this period of time. How are we becoming more advanced when we can't even submit proper strategic paperwork? Then to have multiple Directors and PMs knowingly witness rules being broke on top of being approved to submit open ended, strategic paperwork. Wouldn't open ended, kind of "fill in the blanks" after the fact be a signifier that strategic qualifiers aren't being met? Then to find out that the open ended paperwork was submitted and approved due to a non connected triage event that resulted in inconclusive results to them move forward after the opened ended submissions where locked in to break the rules by using the inconclusive patient's indemnification and status to identify to generate results. Then to have Director Root literally shrug his shoulders and attempt to apologize. Really?
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I think that the Co3MaNDR project, which was shared on AWS's Facebook page on August 2, 2024, can be applied to search and rescue operations in disasters, as well as casualty transfers.
For this,
I think that support can be provided from aircrafts for the support points of the system, if necessary.
Also,
Considering that many people are trapped in places far below the ground in disasters;
I think that in order to reach these places, machines with low vibration release, much smaller dimensions, tunnel boring and, the ability to exit the same tunnel, can be worked on.
The details of these issues are too many, but I think I have at least created an awareness.
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4moI briefed through the rules and regs for this yesterday. Having had the opportunity to witness some results of a challenge and wanting to congratulate a team only to see they didn't qualify their patients by re identifying the patients over the course of the past 3 years. Then my concern was really sparked after having spoke with Director Root and other STO personnel several times over this period of time. How are we becoming more advanced when we can't even submit proper strategic paperwork? Then to have multiple Directors and PMs knowingly witness rules being broke on top of being approved to submit open ended, strategic paperwork. Wouldn't open ended, kind of "fill in the blanks" after the fact be a signifier that strategic qualifiers aren't being met? Then to find out that the open ended paperwork was submitted and approved due to a non connected triage event that resulted in inconclusive results to them move forward after the opened ended submissions where locked in to break the rules by using the inconclusive patient's indemnification and status to identify to generate results. Then to have Director Root literally shrug his shoulders and attempt to apologize. Really?