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PROGNOSIS: ENHANCED SOLDIER SURVIVAL


THIS WON’T HURT A BIT


Diego Gomez-Morales, a USAMMA equipment specialist, demonstrates the new PDRS, which will replace two aging devices: an X-ray generator and an accompanying computerized reader system. Combining the legacy system into a single lightweight unit saves money and makes equipment transport easier—part of USAMMA’s goal to develop materiel that advances Soldier readiness and lethality.


WHY MODERNIZE? Army clinicians and medics often see or hear about a new medical device or capability available to civilian medical personnel and wonder: Why don’t we have that? Te answer to this question isn’t simple. Frankly, there are often many reasons why a medical device used in a hospital stateside will not work in a field environment.


However, in some cases, the answer is


that we don’t have it—yet. We are con- tinually watching the market, too, and completing regular analysis to identify commercial off-the-shelf products that improve medical capabilities and reduce our logistical footprint. Tese items may be more easily maintained on the unit level, or they could be more cost-effective. Our aim is to buy and field medical devices that are smaller and lighter than


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current versions, in order to ease the ship- ping and transportation burden.


Other critical reasons for modernization include changes to current practice or modification to clinical practice guide- lines. When we


identify that fielded


medical equipment no longer meets cur- rent


standards of care, we modernize.


An example of this is the video-assisted laryngoscope, a tool that helps health care providers intubate patients to re-establish breathing. When we have evidence of technology that could significantly improve the standard of care—while being practical for use in deployed set- tings—we modernize.


Technical refresh is another primary driver of medical materiel modernization. When we find that we have items in our inventory that we can’t procure, maintain


If we procure a specific device from a company, there is no guarantee that the same make and model will be procurable five years later, which has second- and third-order effects on maintenance and purchase of repair parts. When this happens, we often must modernize that fielded capability by competitively pro- curing a comparable device that meets all of the essential characteristics of the requirement.


Where possible, we also seek to find a joint solution when we modernize that can be used by not only the Army but also the


or sustain anymore, or are nearing obso- lescence, we must replace the existing capability. Tis is actually one of the more complicated parts of modernization of medical equipment, because medical technology is very fast-moving.


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