Flashback Technologies.

• Position: PHARMACEUTICALS AND MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY

Boulder

Flashbacktechnologies.com

For medical personnel, losing patients from rapid blood loss before life-saving measures can be determined has been a harsh and longtime reality. So far, no technology has existed that can tell how much time patients have before blood loss turns fatal, whether it's at an accident scene, in an emergency room or on the battlefield.

Now Flashback Technologies, through a partnership with the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research, has developed a robotic system that can rapidly relay real-time, noninvasive vital-sign data in the field or at a trauma center to detect blood loss and accurately predict risk for cardiovascular collapse.

"The way we currently take care of trauma patients with blood loss is to monitor their heart...