Accession Number:

ADA561719

Title:

Disaster Medicine: Using Modeling and Simulation to Determine Medical Requirements for Responding to Natural and Man-Made Disasters

Descriptive Note:

Journal article

Corporate Author:

NAVAL HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER SAN DIEGO CA

Personal Author(s):

• Hill, Martin

Report Date:

2010-09-20

Pagination or Media Count:

11.0

Abstract:

It has been suggested that civilian emergency managers should leverage the knowledge and expertise of military medical planners when preparing for medical disaster response. Like their civilian counterparts, military medical planners are faced with personnel shortages and restricted resources. Military medicine, therefore, uses medical modeling and simulation MS to take the guesswork out of developing new field medical capabilities or to preplan deployments for any number of emergency contingencies in austere environments. Civilian disaster medical planners could learn from military medicines MS efforts. To take full advantage of medical MS, however, civilian researchers must make a concerted, long-term effort to collect patient care data during disaster responses. The collected data must include the type and number of injuries and illnesses seen by responders, including anatomical locations when appropriate, and the treatment provided. Once collected, the data must be centralized so it can be coded and made available to medical analysts.

Descriptors:

• *EMERGENCIES
• *MEDICAL SERVICES
• *MILITARY MEDICINE
• CODING
• DEPLOYMENT
• HEALTH CARE FACILITIES
• MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL
• PATIENTS
• SIMULATION

Subject Categories:

• Medicine and Medical Research
• Safety Engineering

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE