Affiliations: [a] Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA, USA | [b] National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, US Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD, USA
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Address for correspondence: Louis A. Quatrano, Program Director, BSRE, National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, US Department of Health and Human Services, 6100 Executive Boulevard, Room 2A03, MSC 7510, Bethesda, MD, USA. Tel.: +1 301 402 4221; Fax: +1 301 402 0832; E-mail: quatranl@exchange.nih.gov.
Abstract: A conference sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) titled “Translating Civilian and Defense Technologies for Pediatric Critical Care and Rehabilitation Research” was held on May 16th and 17th, 2005 in Rockville, Maryland. A summary of presentations from the conference is provided. Topics presented addressed: advances in monitoring and imaging devices used in the pediatric intensive care unit, regulatory issues and recent technological developments relating to medical devices for children, the new role that virtual reality is playing in rehabilitation medicine, and the evolving future of assistive devices for rehabilitation.
Keywords: Pediatrics, critical care, rehabilitation, medical technology
