Combat casualties often experience complex extremity injuries involving extensive soft tissue damage, bone fractures, and potential limb loss, requiring specialized medical care and reconstruction. While many wounds are treated surgically by cleaning and closing the edges with strips, sutures, or staples, often with grafts or flaps, a new method is emerging to support healing.
Researchers from the Uniformed Services University’s (USU’s) Surgical Critical Care Initiative (SC2i) and the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine (HJF) have developed WounDx™ to help surgeons make quick, accurate treatment decisions for these injuries. WounDx™ is a biomarker-based clinical decision support tool designed to optimize the timing of wound closure. This software aims to improve care for wounded warfighters, reduce costs, enhance resource availability, and contribute to medical readiness.