DIALING UP CRITICAL CARE
with all kinds of health-related issues, not the least of which is the current pandemic,” said Little.
“Tis isn’t a science experiment,” Quin added. “It’s not building stuff from scratch. In a matter of 60 to 90 days, we’re going to be out there with these tools.”
LONG-DISTANCE SUPPORT
NETCCN is being developed with the goal of dramatically improving care for warfighters in austere environments, like these deployed Soldiers who participated in a mass casualty exercise in September 2019 at Al Asad Airbase, Iraq. (Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Tracy L. Korff, 641st Regional Support Group)
Beyond the pandemic—and outside of other practical applications on the home front such as large-scale disaster situations—there can be no doubt the NETCCN would clearly translate well to the future battlefield; providing increased Soldier care in austere environments; and particularly with regard to the current posture of DOD as it relates to multidomain operations. Indeed, the NETCCN team is currently working on a slew of models designed to project how, exactly, the network would be used in dense urban environments and on ships. Given the network’s “anywhere to anywhere” capabilities, the capacity to empower, for instance, medics to work far beyond the scope of their license on compli- cated care issues with support from literally any echelon of care would be a game-changer for force health and resilience.
For right now, however, more work needs to be done. Data collection (as in the analysis of data culled from the testing of prototype NETCCN platforms and then enabling contribution of data to a “data commons” repository) remains a challenge in such a fast-paced project (such efforts would be “showstoppers” in any other arena at any other time, admits Quinn), and yet that hasn’t stopped the NETCCN’s progress in the least. In fact, TATRC officials have already set their sights on using said data for developing future analytical models and possibly for artifi- cial intelligence purposes.
“Tere’s value in what we’re doing,” said Quinn. “Not only for the current crisis, but for future emergencies as well.”
For more information about TATRC, go to
https://www.tatrc.org/ www/about/. For more information about the USAMRDC, go to
https://mrdc.amedd.army.mil/.
COVER YOUR BUDDY
NETCCN was originally developed to help aid care for COVID-19 patients nationwide, with an eye toward helping both the warfighter and the larger civilian population during disaster relief efforts in the future. Here, Navy Lt. Tiffany Bradley participates in fit testing for an N95 respirator and survival mask at Naval Hospital Okinawa, Japan, on March 27. (Photo by 1st Lt. Tori Sharpe, U.S. Marine Corps)
RAMIN A. KHALILI is a writer with the USAMRDC Public Affairs Office. Before assuming his current role, he spent five years as the knowledge manager for the USAMRDC’s Combat Casualty Care Research Program. During his previous work as a broadcast journalist, he earned an Associated Press Award for his work in Phoenix, Arizona, before serving as chief NASA correspondent for CBS in Orlando, Florida. He holds a B.A. in communications from Penn State University.
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