The human body can be as much as 85% water. Small wonder, then, that one of the first lines of treatment for trauma patients like wounded soldiers is controlled fluid replacement, often at high volumes. The problem is that conventional infusion pumps are typically designed to deliver small amounts of fluids at high accuracies—100 mL over the course of an hour or more, for example, which is far from sufficient for trauma treatment. When the U.S. Army went looking for a compact, portable field unit that could run at rates of 100 mL/min, Zoll Medical Corp. turned to motion control—and efficient, high torque motors from MICROMO—to provide the answer.