Mobilization

File: aaabf_48.txt
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Total Pages: 51
CATEGORY: Logistics 
 
ISSUE ITEM #: 
 
SUBJECT: Equipment Modernization 
 
BACKGROUND: Physicians deploying should have ongoing training at their 
home MTFs treating patients utilizing the actual prototypes of field 
equipment prepositioned at the contingency sites. This will train 
physicians so they can immediately use field equipment without further 
training. For example, anesthesiologists using field anesthesia 
machines in their home MTF operating rooms would not need to 
become familiar with the equipment in the field before they 
could use it. Many items that might have been needed had 
this conflict continued for any length of time were not 
available. Fracture table, surgical hand table, arterial 
blood gas analyzer, pulse oximeters, spirometers, hematology 
analyzers, pleurovacs are but a few of the items identified 
by the 609th Contingency Hospital's after actions report. 
 
DISCUSSION: Members of the medical staff felt that the items above were 
essential to providing the level of care commensurate with their 
expertise and expected mission. 
 
SUGGESTED OPR: .HQ USAF/SGHR, DoD NWHIO