For the past several years, Thornhill Research Inc. has been developing for the Marine Corps. a means to eliminate oxygen canisters from the battlefield. The Monitoring Oxygen Ventalation & External Suction system (MOVES) is designed to do just that. MOVES can be hooked up to a patient and is able to generate its' own oxygen, ventilate, suction, and monitor vitals. The need arose for this technology when aircraft were being lost to exploding oxygen canisters during fires.
MOVES is expected to go into production by spring of next year with 50 units available by the following fall. Also, as you can imagine, MOVES has large possibilities in the civilian prehospital sector, so expect to so it available soon after mass production for about $55,000 a unit.
I was very excited to read about this, it is a leap and a bound in the field of not only combat medicine, but emergency medicine as a whole. This is technology that was once thought to be impossible, but is now a reality. Who knows what else lies ahead in the near future.
MOVES is expected to go into production by spring of next year with 50 units available by the following fall. Also, as you can imagine, MOVES has large possibilities in the civilian prehospital sector, so expect to so it available soon after mass production for about $55,000 a unit.
I was very excited to read about this, it is a leap and a bound in the field of not only combat medicine, but emergency medicine as a whole. This is technology that was once thought to be impossible, but is now a reality. Who knows what else lies ahead in the near future.
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