Gerry Pang's research while affiliated with Naval Health Research Center and other places

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A modeling and simulation effort was completed on the Air Force Expeditionary Medical Support (EMEDS)+10 system using current Naval Health Research Center methodology and the Estimating Supplies Program (ESP). The clinical functional areas modeled were the Emergency Room, Operating Room, Anesthesia, Central Sterile Supply, Critical Care Unit, and W...
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A modeling and simulation effort was completed on the Air Force Expeditionary Medical Support (EMEDS) Basic system using current Naval Health Research Center methodology and the Estimating Supplies Program (ESP). The clinical functional areas modeled were the Flight Medicine, Emergency Room, Operating Room, Anesthesia, Central Sterile Supply, and M...
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The objective of this study was to show the benefits of modeling clinical supply requirements for Special Operations missions by providing an analysis and validation of the Air Force Special Operations Command Rapid Response Deployment Kit (RRDK) Allowance Standard. This study identified several instances of multiple National Stock Numbers being us...
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The U.S. Air Force Medical Support Agency Surgeon General Support Logistics Office requested Naval Health Research Center conduct a proof-of-concept study to assess the validity and feasibility of using NHRC's medical modeling tool the Estimating Supplies Program (ESP) for the development and management of Air Force medical Allowance Standards as a...
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The U.S. Air Force Medical Support Agency, Surgeon General Support Logistics Office, requested that the Naval Health Research Center (NHRC) conduct a proof of concept study to assess the validity and feasibility of using NHRC's medical modeling tool for the development and management of Air Force medical Allowance Standards as a baseline for standa...
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The U.S. Air Force Medical Support Agency, Surgeon General Support Logistics Office, requested that the Naval Health Research Center (NHRC) conduct a proof of concept study to assess the validity and feasibility of using NHRC's medical modeling tool for the development and management of Air force medical Allowance Standards as a baseline for standa...
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The Tactical Medical Logistics Planning Tool (TML+) is a software program designed for Navy and Marine Corps medical planners as a simulation tool that models the flow of patients from the point of injury (POI) through more definitive care, and an operations research tool that supports systems analysis, operational risk assessment, and field medica...
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Naval Health Research Center (NHRC) was tasked by the Marine Corps Systems Command (SYSCOM) and the Marine Corps Combat Development Command (MCCDC) to review and update the Authorized Medical Allowance Lists (AMALs) for the FRSS (AMAL 645) and the STP (AMAL 631 and 632). The aim of this study was to determine how to augment the medical capabilities...
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Combat operations in Afghanistan and Iraq have emphasized the need for a Marine Corps surgical company that is modular and adaptable to changing battle environments. Just as the surgical company operating room may be split off to work nearly independently as a sort of forward resuscitative surgery section, other parts of the hospital can now find t...
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The Marine Corps Chemical Biological Incident Response Force (CBIRF) was established in 1996. Since then, CBIRF s mission has expanded to included responses to radiological and high-yield explosive incidents. Its concept of operation has been reworked to include two separate incident response forces within CBIRF. The objective of this study was to...
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Providing casualty evacuation (CASEVAC) in the modern high-maneuver combat environment presents special problems. Small mobile units operating at increased distances from rear areas or sea-based platforms likely will not have the support of a Level 1B treatment facility such as a battalion aid station. With combat elements positioned far forward of...
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The growing threat posed by the possible use of biological and chemical agents by terrorists or renegade nations increases the need for Marine Corps and Navy health care providers to be prepared to treat victims of biochemical agents on the battlefield. This study reviewed Marine Corps medical supply blocks for biological and chemical warfare casua...
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The study's objective was the development and evaluation of an automated method that examines the Fleet's AMMALs and compares them in a way that identifies discrepancies so that errors may be addressed on an on-going basis. To accomplish the objective, a computer program was created that first took the 12 different AMMALs, for the 3 different force...
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The Naval Health Research Center (NHRC) designed, developed, and utilized a systematic process to review the Marine Corps medical supply requirements. This approach identified the medical tasks required to treat patients with specific injuries and illnesses, and determined the supplies and equipment required by each task. To determine the amount of...
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The Medical Readiness Strategic Plan 2001 outlines the necessity of tailoring medical capability to support evolving Marine Corps doctrine. To address this issue, the primary objective of the current study was to develop a model of the echelon la (battlefield) and echelon lb (Battalion Aid Station) medical supply stream that described the clinical...

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... There are 76 PCs for unconventional warfare, ranging from 351 to 440. [2,3] Each PC was linked to a treatment brief, including the following information: the patient's description, complaints, brief treatment measures, and probabilities of return to duty, death, or evacuation. For inpatient injuries, the treatment brief also includes time of surgery, critical care, brief medical advice, brief physician orders in intermediate care units, and brief medical instructions in general care units. ...
... As designed and developed during FY01 to FY07, TML+ is a software program for medical planners that estimates medical resource requirements using data from the Estimating Supplies Program (ESP). 1 It permits a broad range of operational risk assessments, medical systems analysis, and operations research studies to be conducted for a variety of scenarios. The tool assumes a systems view of the tactical Medical Treatment Facility (MTF) network within the theater, where the MTFs are integrated with transportation assets and compete for medical/logistics resources (staff, equipment, consumables, transporters) as casualties flow through the system. ...
... Unmanned aerial systems (UASs) offer an alternative means of air CASEVAC. This alternative may provide time-critical response, while reducing the threat to aircraft crews (Hill, Konoske, Galarneau, & Pang, 2003). ...