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Hello. I am the deputy director. We are here to give you the highlights of the museum. The museum was founded in as the 1862 Army Medical Museum. Our Mission Today is very much the same. It is to collect objects that preserve the legacy of american medicine. What we will show you today are highlights of the Museum Collections from the last 150 years in areas of military medicine, Human Anatomy and pathology, forensic identification, bioengineering, and a special few artifacts we have on display here. So, come along. We have moved into an exhibit on military medicine. But we start our tour today with this object, the floor of what was known as trauma bay 2 from the Theater Hospital in iraq. From 2003 un ....
From peru with the skull of a Civil War Soldier showing essentially the same type of surgical treatment. We then give the visitor a chance to see the types of tools used. At the end of the exhibit an opportunity to see the types of tools used for modern tpi rehabilitation, which includes, interestingly enough, video games and the Important Role that Service Animals play in helping tbi patients recover and go about their daily lives. So weve come to the third of the three exhibit galleries here at the medical museum and weve moved here to an exhibit on Biomedical Engineering which features this artificial kidney. The kidney here was invented by a dutch physician who developed this technology in nazi occupied holland and the first generation of this device ....
Thats a big word. 3d stereo lit graphic prints of soldiers injured in the war in iraq. These 3d casts were done at what was then still Walter Reed Medical Center and if you can imagine taking cat scan data and pushing those through a 3d printer, they provide the surgeon a real world model of that soldiers injuries. These were soldiers injured in the war, survived their injuries, were recovering at walter reed and the surgeons used these models to help plan future injuries. So learn what gone could be recovered or discarded, to plan for the prosthetic that might be used to reshape and protect that soldiers skull and then also found themselves limiting the number of surgeries and decreasing the chances of infection and haste thing the recovery of that Service Member and restoring some measure of the quality of life that they deserved. The last feature in the exhibit ....