Using Modeling and Simulation to Examine the Benefits of Medical Technology in a Simulated Combat Environment

Abstract

This paper shows how the authors used Modeling and Simulation (M&S) to examine the potential benefits of medical technology in simulated combat. Today, thanks to increased computer processing power, storage capacity and improved programming languages, M&S is used to duplicate and replicate systems, processes, procedures and activities; and, to support training and analysis requirements for numerous government and non-government organizations. As a result, the opportunity to leverage this work increases dramatically each year. The authors leveraged the work accomplished for the Army Medical Department Center for Strategic Studies where M&S was used to incorporate combat medics and medical transport vehicles into a simulated combat engagement with casualties. By leveraging this work and using the casualty and simulated combat environment as the starting points, the authors used M&S to incorporate the anticipated benefit of medical technology. The results of this initial effort are contained in this report.