A Medical Planning Tool for Projecting the Required Casualty Evacuation Assets in a Military Theater of Operations.
Abstract
Military medical readiness for ground combat operations requires projections of the evacuation assets needed to transport the casualties incurred through the various echelons of medical care. The OPTEVAC planning tool was designed to minimize the required evacuation assets by providing the optimal deployment locations of these transportation assets. This simulation tool utilizes information on the expected casualty rates, the size of theater, the desired troop deployment node and medical treatment facility (MTF) locations, and the types and numbers of available air and ground ambulances to drive the underlying linear programming algorithm which determines the optimal transportation asset locations. More specifically, user input is accomplished by prompting the planner to enter troop deployment and MTF sites as well as the associated evacuation routes on a grid scaled to represent the combat theater. The OPTEVAC software then uses a modified version of the Probabilistic Location Set Covering Problem (PLSCP) to calculate the minimum numbers of ground evacuation assets along with their most appropriate locations at Echelon II and III within the theater.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 02, 1997
- Accession Number
- ADA335748
Entities
People
- Christopher G. Blood
- David C. Keith
- Scott C. Sundstrom
- Serge A. Matheny
Organizations
- Naval Health Research Center