Operational Medicine Applications of Bioengineering
A special issue of Bioengineering (ISSN 2306-5354). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomedical Engineering and Biomaterials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2024 | Viewed by 9128
Special Issue Editors
Interests: bioengineering; technology; innovation; health; human performance; operational medicine; military medicine; biologics; therapeutics; diagnostics; imaging
Interests: diagnostics; biometric data; pathogens; public health; readiness; next generation sequencing
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Operational medicine refers collectively to the delivery of healthcare under a wide range of challenging conditions including austere environments, conflict or war zones, climate change-forced migrations, extreme weather conditions such as arctic freeze and oppressive heat waves, and natural disasters such as hurricanes and earthquakes. Operational medicine is a concern for military medicine, rural medicine, disaster medicine, or any field which includes the delivery of health care under potentially extreme conditions with limited resources. Medical conditions such as trauma, environmental exposures, the exhaustion of healthcare workers, and the depletion of medical supplies become critical and challenges the provision of healthcare. Advances in bioengineering promise to solve the various issues encountered in operational medicine, enabling the proper monitoring of human health, the detection of environmental exposures, providing novel therapies, or even preventing injury.
This Special Issue invites papers that show advances in bioengineering that can benefit operational medicine by improving the prevention, delivery, detection, and/or treatment of injuries common to austere conditions.
This Special Issue invites contributions of original research papers and review articles dealing with the adaptation of bioengineering for operational readiness, resilience, and medical care. The topics of biotechnologies can include, but are not limited to, austere manufacturing, tissue engineering, organ-on-chip models, organoid platforms, cell therapies, biosurveillance, predictive algorithms and tools, advanced diagnostics, and point-of-care medical devices.
Dr. Vincent B. Ho
Dr. J. Kenneth Wickiser
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- operational medicine
- austere medicine
- disaster medicine
- biotechnology
- additive manufacturing
- austere manufacturing
- 3D printing
- organ-on-chip
- organoid
- bioprinting
- cell therapy
- biosurveillance
- medical devices