ICU-in-a-Box: Autonomous Extracorporeal Multiple-Organ Support Therapies

Severe hemorrhage is the number one cause of preventable combat deaths, followed by airway compromise (Eastridge, 2012), with increased artillery, thermobaric and incendiary munitions use (Remondelli et al. 2023) potentially increasing lung injury prevalence in future conflicts. Following initial trauma, sepsis and multiple-organ failure predominate (Neff et al. 2013). While improvements in…