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U.S. Army Special Forces Medical Handbook
U.S. Army Special Forces Medical Handbook
Comparing Star Trek Medicine to Combat Medical treatments
Aside from being the most successful franchise in television history, Star Trek – from “The Original Series” through its most recent incanation, "Enterprise" – fired the imaginations of astronauts, scientists, inventors and those who just wanted to see its advanced technologies become real-world devices.
In many areas, that is occurring far more quickly than Gene Roddenberry and those who came after him expected. The perennial flip-phone is very reminiscent of Captain Kirk’s hand-held communicator, for example, and the Internet is humanity’s first attempt at a Memory Alpha. But some of the most interesting evolutions from science fiction to science fact are happening in medicine.
The senior medical officers of today believe a embryonic version of Dr. "Bones" McCoy’s medical tricorder will be in use by the US armed forces. Not "at some time in the future". Not in a couple of decades. But very soon. Perhaps before the end of this decade.
Indeed, the US Army is already beginning to field the first elements of its new Land Warrior battle ensemble, which will upgrade a battlefield soldier from a cog in the gears of combat to a central and primary element of a new system-of-systems type approach. The success of this effort up till now is important to medicine since the continuing research and development (R&D) side of this ceaseless process – Future Force Warrior (FFW) – is exploring some significant advances not only in protecting soldiers from injury, but in providing care for them if they are wounded.
US military casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq already hold the record for the fewest “killed in action” (those who die in combat before they can be treated) of any conflict in human history. That is largely due to two factors: Advanced body armor that has practically eliminated head and torso wounds and far better medical intervention in the field. That ranges from medics (and Navy corpsmen) who are far better trained and equipped than their predecessors, to surgeons who were placed at the front during the primary phase of combat.
As a result, the "golden-hour, as it's called, has become what one Army surgeon calls the “platinum 10 minutes” – the time from the moment a soldier is injured until he (or she) receives life-saving medical care.
Ongoing breakthroughs are aimed at developing armor to protect arms and legs – the most common locations for wounds, mostly from explosions and fragmentation, among US soldiers today. The ultimate, should the final kinks be ironed out, would be the Future Force Warrior prototype, which almost everyone likens to the full-body armor worn by the imperial troops in Star Wars.
Much closer to reality are other FFW components that may well become integral to standard military kit in the next few years. For example, systems that constantly monitor the individual’s vital signs, fluid intake, patterns of sleep, forwarding that information there-and-then (and wirelessly) to any medic. It could even send out a radio call to the nearest field medic should those vital signs show that a soldier has received a injury.
Such a development may not be a hand-held tricorder, but it's getting there.
Military personnel will also be wearing electronic dog tags that contain their entire medical histories (updated regularly), which makes it possible to tailor treatment, taking account of allergies, drug interactions or other medical conditions or recent treatments. That may also include updates at each stage of care along the line of evacuation from where the soldier was injured all the way back to a hospital in the US.
Every soldier, airman, sailor and Marine also will be issued a personal first aid kit containing, among other things, a one-hand tourniquet and special bandages that instantly clot the blood to stop bleeding (rapid blood loss remains the primary cause of death on the battlefield). Each will also be given advanced first aid training – and one in six (at least) will be trained as a Combat Life Saver (CLS). While it receives a non-medical rating, the CLS will provide assistance, as required, to regular medics, as well as adding one new layer of on-site support to his or her fellow war fighters.
Corpsmen and medics also are undergoing significant upgrades in both equipment and training. With the addition of a constant stream – and history – of data from every soldier and the ability to “reach back”, with both video and audio, to higher levels of medical expertise, from the Forward Surgical Team operating within the sound of front-line gunfire to best-in-their-field specialists in the US, the Future Warrior Medic will be able to provide an superlative level of medical care within minutes of a soldier being wounded.
A few of these elements are already in place in Southwest Asia; most will be within a matter of months. Others coming along include:
A testing kit using biomarkers to determine whether brain injury has occurred and how severe that injury might be
Automatic controls built into ventilators, allowing medics to deliver a level of resuscitation currently only available from intensive-care nurses
Hand-held ultrasound devices that can pinpoint internal injuries
A digital handbook of diagnostic and treatment protocols medics can carry into combat
Turning ordinary air into medical-grade oxygen with small portable oxygen generators
A system that can quickly identify and diagnose 10 biologic weapons threats, including anthrax, smallpox and plague
Ways to provide replacement blood without the need for whole blood bags that must be refrigerated
An advanced, self-contained training simulator for medics (not a holodeck, but also getting there)
While these breakthroughs are targeted at providing quick, competent medical care to combat personnel, they will also become part of the medical field capability US forces will be able to provide to civilians and enemy combatants.
Before the current conflict, there was no provision for US military medicine to care for children, the elderly or illnesses and diseases that was not found among the young, physically fit members of the armed forces. Today – and to an even greater extent in the future – such care will be integral to the training and equipment the Air Force, Army and Navy will take into combat and to disaster relief and humanitarian missions, as well.
Within the careers of some in uniform today, future civilian and military R&D may go even further than Star Trek doctors could achieve. Lt. Gen. Kevin C. Kiley, the Surgeon General of the Army, has written that he believes one of the “most exciting possibilities in modern medicine” is the ability to repair or re-grow lost or damaged tissues and limbs. “Regenerative medicine”, Kiley says, is the subject of propitious research that he feels “has implications for military medicine in the near future”.
McCoy's sickbay on the Enterprise was set in the 23rd Century, some 200 years into our future. It could very well be, though, that “Bones” would find himself outdated and old-fashioned in the midst of 21st Century combat medicine. We can only dream of the advances to come in the next 50-100 years, let alone the next 200!
