Using Time-Phased Casualty Estimates to Determine Medical Resupply Requirements
Abstract
The means of supplying and resupplying medical materiel needs to be efficiently managed. In order to achieve objectives like greater battlefield mobility, increased speed, and force flexibility for a wide variety of operations, it is especially important that supplies are not only directly related to those missions but also that appropriate quantities are available. Resupply of medical materiel has come of age. It needs to follow in the footsteps of initial supply requirements and become part of the process that models sustainment on real-time casualty data. Because planning and outfitting medical missions require predicting a future as yet unrealized, the resupply process can be more automated and precise by aligning it with real casualty data. The US Marine Corps (USMC) missions set the guidelines for configuring supply modules that determine the scope of care provided at individual treatment facilities, and this drives the decisions concerning how best to equip medical personnel in theater so they can respond most efficiently to warfighter needs. Adequately equipping these facilities is a challenge that requires knowledge of planning factors like expected casualty rates and potential illnesses and injuries. In this study, the Naval Health Research Center (NHRC) modeling programs focused first on the capability, on the clinical services performed at the treatment facility, using clinical requirements to indicate tasks performed and supplies necessary to fulfill that facility's mission. The clinical requirements were then tied to actual patient conditions, creating a logical methodology for establishing initial requirements. Subsequently, NHRC researchers used their underlying data to tackle the resupply process. They also used the data to ensure that the proper assets are always available, not just at the outset of an operation, but as time proceeds and the mission requires medical sustainment.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 18, 2006
- Accession Number
- ADA462159
Entities
People
- Kathleen Onofrio
- Paula Konoske
- Tim Daly
Organizations
- Leidos