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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 MWHIO 

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