Smart Monitoring 2009
Sunday, August 9, 2009, 0830 – 1700 hours
Smart Monitoring 2009 is a forum for open discussions focused on vital signs monitoring for combat casualty care. The content also will be of interest to clinicians and developers of monitoring systems for civilian trauma and critical care.
Why?
The DOD’s En Route Care System (ERCS) is the doctrine, personnel and technologies for optimal medical care from the field thru the ICU. The need for new technologies is clear, and will require innovation from government, academia and industry. Smart Monitoring 2009 provides a forum for communication between industry and the medical caregiver. Physicians, nurses and medics who know the limitations of current technologies can define what they need, but can not develop the products. Industry has the means to develop the products, but needs an understanding of the customers’ real world needs.
The focus of this years presentations are: 1) recent changes in DOD medical doctrine and long term planning, 2) current medical needs in Iraq and Afghanistan and 3) technological advancements of a new generation of Smart Monitoring systems.
Join expert caregivers and industrial representatives for focused discussions on the unmet needs of combat casualty care and trauma care. This unique meeting provides for an open and off the record dialog between military medical caregivers and industrial experts.
Goals:
Provide a forum for combat experienced physicians, medics, corpsmen, and nurses to discuss what is needed, and how current monitoring technologies meet or do not meet those needs.
Provide an opportunity for industry to present new and emerging monitoring technologies. Industry representatives will provide the vision of how their product(s) will contribute to medical care of military and civilian trauma.
Topics addressed will include :
Monitors with Decision Support and facilitation of Goal Directed Therapy.
What are the existing technologies, and what advancements can we expect to have in 1-2 years?
The role of unmanned vehicles in future combat casualty care.
Wireless monitors … here now or when?
How do monitor needs differ for the field, tactical medevac transport, battalion aid station, perioperative care at forward surgical unit, and the combat surgical hospital.
Advances in smaller lighter monitors and better sensor technology.