DHA Partners With Marines to Refine Portable TBI Assessment Technology for Austere Battlefield
BLUF – The Defense Health Agency and II Marine Expeditionary Force partnered to evaluate prototype portable traumatic brain injury assessment devices at Camp Lejeune, giving Navy corpsmen and medical officers hands-on experience to refine lightweight tools designed for rapid neurological assessment in austere, far-forward environments where prolonged field care is expected. For Navy Medicine, the initiative reflects the growing emphasis on equipping corpsmen with deployable diagnostic technologies that improve triage, support extended casualty management in distributed maritime operations, and help prioritize limited medical evacuation assets during future large-scale combat operations.