CDMRP Combat Casualty Care Research Program: Battlefield Wound Management and Infection Research (BWMIR) Award

The program has identified the following Focus Areas for funding: 

• Understanding appropriate wound prophylaxis/empiric treatment strategies throughout continuum of care, regardless of injury status
• Understanding combat traumatic wound physiology and wound progression through preclinical and clinical studies to inform clinical practice guidelines and standard of care efficacy and gaps.
• Optimizing prolonged care management of penetrating torso injury by developing solutions for prevention/management of deep space infections (e.g., bacterial or fungal) and delays in care of penetrating abdominal injury.
• Development of analysis and decision support tools to guide traumatic combat wound care and casualty management to triage, prevent and/or treat infections.

It is expected that 7-10 awards will be granted.