Aurorus / Applications / Field & combat medicine / Austere environments

§ 01 / Austere Environments

Accurate assessments in the field and on the battlefield.

Aurorus gives medics an objective read on a patient's physiological state in minutes wherever care is required. It's rugged, battery-powered, and built to travel, with no lab, no consumables, no needle, and no specialist required. Whether in a remote village, on an isolated island, or in an active combat zone, Aurorus is a cost-effective way to triage faster and guide what care comes next.

Portable Battery operated No consumables No needles Connected anywhere

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01Remote villages & small islands 02Disaster sites & humanitarian response 03Combat zones & forward operating bases

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Care anywhere

Care that travels anywhere in the world.

A clinician scanning a child outside a rural village home

Remote villages & small islands

Past where the road or the ferry ends. A single unit captures an objective read on the spot — to store, send, or escalate as connectivity allows.

Community healthIsland clinics

A clinician running an Aurorus scan on a patient in a disaster triage tent

Disaster sites & humanitarian response

For humanitarian and disaster-response teams, a battery-operated scanner triages and monitors at scale without supplies that have to be flown in.

Mass casualtyNGO deployment

A combat medic running an Aurorus scan on a soldier in the field

Combat zones & forward operating bases

An objective baseline at point of injury — including signal for blast and concussive injury that routinely hides from field assessment.

Point of injuryBlast / TBI

Images are for illustrative purposes only.

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Built to be carried

A measurement system that fits in the bag.

Every constraint of the austere environment was a design requirement: no mains power, no cold chain, no consumable supply line, no specialist operator, and no assumption of a network.

Form factor

Portable & rugged

A self-contained handheld unit that travels in a standard medical pack. No tethered console, no fixed install, no fragile bench instrument to keep level.

Power

Battery operated

Runs off its own rechargeable battery for a full field shift — chargeable from mains, vehicle, or portable solar. Functions completely independent of grid power.

Logistics

No consumables, no needles

Nothing to resupply, refrigerate, or dispose of as biohazard. No reagents, no cartridges, no sharps — the supply line that usually fails in the field simply isn't there.

Operation

No specialist required

A guided seven-minute scan operable by a medic, nurse, or trained health worker. The skill sits in the device, not in years of phlebotomy or lab training.

Connectivity — capture offline, transmit when a link is available

The scan does not depend on a connection. Data is captured and stored on the device, then moves the moment any channel becomes available — across four independent paths, so the read reaches a clinician whether the medic is in a city, a valley, or the middle of an ocean.

Wi-Fi For clinics, field hospitals, and bases with a local network. Highest-bandwidth path when present.

Cellular Pushes reads over 4G / LTE wherever a mobile network reaches — the default link across most populated terrain.

Satellite Reaches a clinician onshore from open ocean, deep field, or anywhere terrestrial networks don't exist.

Bluetooth Short-range relay to a phone, tablet, or laptop already in the kit — bridge to whatever that device can reach.

Offline-first by design. When no link exists, the scan is still performed and the data is held on the device — store-and-forward means it syncs automatically the next time the unit sees a network. The medic is never blocked by the absence of a signal.

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In the field

What it changes at the point of care.

An objective layer under decisions that, in austere settings, have been made almost entirely on observation and experience.

Triage prioritization.

When casualties outnumber hands, a quantitative read of physiological state helps sort who is genuinely critical from who looks stable but isn't — and re-sort as the situation changes, without waiting on a lab that doesn't exist.

Catching the quiet decline.

Fast, repeatable scans turn monitoring into a trend rather than a snapshot. A patient can be re-read every interval during prolonged care or transport, surfacing deterioration before vital signs cross the obvious threshold.

Objective signal for blast & concussive injury.

Subclinical traumatic brain injury routinely evades field assessment. Aurorus provides objective signal where there was previously only observation — directly relevant to the operational environments where blast exposure is common.

Spending scarce resources well.

Evacuation slots, blood, beds, and clinician attention are all finite in the field. Objective data sharpens the stay-or-evacuate and who-goes-first calls that determine where those scarce resources actually go.

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Dashboard & reporting

Every scan becomes a structured report.

The seven-minute scan resolves into a readout the medic can act on in the field and a clinician can read anywhere it lands — a color-coded view of the body's major systems, the organs running out of range, and how today's numbers compare to the last scan.

Systems Dashboard: ten major body systems scored 0–100 and color-coded green, yellow, or red, with organ-imbalance and risk icons — Systems Dashboard The body's ten major systems, each scored 0–100 and flagged green, yellow, or red — with icons calling out organ imbalances and findings that need attention now.

Organs Out of Normal Range: anatomical body maps with numbered markers on organs running above normal bioelectrical demand — Organs out of range Anatomical maps pinpoint the specific organs running above normal — ranked by severity.

Respiratory system detail page: system summary, system-level scores for nervous and physical measures, and an annotated body diagram — System-level detail Drill into any system for system-level scores across nervous and physical measures.

History and Trends: a timeline comparing the five most recent scans with trend lines for each system — History & trends Serial scans line up on a timeline, so deterioration or recovery shows as a trend — not a guess.

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Combat case study

Combat Case Study: traumatic brain injury.

Validation evidence — TBI assessment cohort

Of every injury the field medic has to assess without instruments, traumatic brain injury is among the most dangerous to miss — and the hardest to see. Blast and concussive injury can present with stable vital signs and a patient who insists they're fine.

Building on a 2015 blinded feasibility study (NCT02471625) — a small early study that distinguished recent head-trauma cases from controls, including cases with normal CT. These studies are for informational purposes and do not constitute diagnostic claims.

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Traumatic brain injury n = 55 (22 injured / 33 control) · blinded feasibility study Blast and concussive injury assessment, where subclinical TBI is routinely missed by current field screening — the single most operationally relevant result for combat and disaster medicine.

It is precisely the austere environment — far from imaging, far from a neurologist — where an objective, carried read of this kind changes the decision in front of the medic.

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Forward, carefully

What it is, and what it is not.

The austere environment is exactly where overstating a tool's reach does the most harm. We are deliberate about Aurorus's role.

For the record · placed deliberately FDA De Novo · DEN150004

Aurorus is

An FDA De Novo cleared (DEN150004) electrophysiological measurement tool that provides quantitative data on electrophysiological and related bioelectric signals.
A general wellness and research tool that offers insights into an individual’s physiological and autonomic state.
A fast, non-invasive way to track changes over time in response to wellness practices, lifestyle interventions, and other therapies.
A complementary technology designed to support practitioners in functional and integrative settings.

Aurorus is not

A diagnostic device for any specific disease or medical condition.
A replacement for conventional medical diagnostics, imaging (MRI, CT), or clinical laboratory testing.
Immune to all biological variability — factors such as age, medications, recent meals, and acute states can influence readings and must be considered in context.
Intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
A standalone clinical decision-making tool — results should always be interpreted by qualified practitioners alongside other clinical findings.

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Next steps

Put it in the field.

Tell us where you operate and what you're trying to assess. We'll route the conversation to the right person on our team.

Combat zones & forward operating bases

For combat medics, forward care, and defense program offices.

Program inquiry →

Disaster sites & humanitarian response

For disaster response teams and NGOs working in austere settings.

Deployment conversation →

Remote villages & small islands

For island clinics, offshore operators, and remote community health programs.

Field briefing →

Aurorus is an electrophysiological measurement system cleared by the FDA under De Novo classification (DEN150004). It is not an in-vitro diagnostic and does not replace clinical judgment, definitive care, or laboratory testing where required.