Disaster Medicine: Using Modeling and Simulation to Determine Medical Requirements for Responding to Natural and Man-Made Disasters
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 (M&S) 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 medicine?s M&S efforts. To take full advantage of medical M&S, 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.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 20, 2010
- Accession Number
- ADA561719
Entities
People
- Martin Hill
Organizations
- Naval Health Research Center