Star Trek Tricorder
Comparing Star Trek Medicine to Real Wartime Medicine
Besides being the most iconic franchise in television history, Star Trek – from “The Original Series” through “Enterprise” – fired the imaginations of astronauts, scientists, inventors and those who just wanted to see its advanced technologies appear in the real world.
Perhaps not surprisingly, that is occurring much more often than Gene Roddenberry and his successors predicted. The perennial flip-phone is very reminiscent of Captain Kirk’s hand-held communicator, for instance, and the Internet is humanity’s first Memory Alpha. But a few of the most interesting evolutions from science fiction to fact are happening in the medical arena.
Current senior military medical officers believe a rudimentary version of Dr. “Bones” McCoy’s medical tricorder will be in use by the US military. Not “at some time in the future”. Not in a decade or two. But very soon. Possibly even before the end of this decade.
Indeed, the US Army is already beginning to field the first parts of its new Land Warrior battle ensemble, which will upgrade a battlefield soldier from being a cog in the gears of combat to a central and primary element of a new system-of-systems type approach. The success of this effort to date is essential to medicine since the on-going research and development (R&D) side of this continuous process – Future Force Warrior (FFW) – is looking at some significant advances not only in protecting soldiers from being injured, but in providing care for them should they be wounded.
US military injuries in Afghanistan and Iraq already hold the record for the least number of “killed in action” (those who perish in combat before they can be treated) of any conflict in the history of warfare. That is primarily due to two factors: Advanced body armor that has practically prevented head and torso wounds and far better medical care in the field. That ranges from medics (and Navy corpsmen) who are better trained and equipped than their predecessors, to surgeons who were placed on the front-lines during the initial phase of combat.
Therefore, the “golden-hour, as it’s called, has turned into what one Army surgeon calls the “platinum 10 minutes” – the amount of time from the instant a soldier is wounded until he (or she) is the recipient of life-saving medical care.
Continuing advances are aimed at developing armor to protect arms and legs – the primary locations for wounds, mostly from explosions and fragmentation, among US soldiers today. Ultimately, should the final quirks be worked out, would be the Future Force Warrior prototype, which just about everyone compares with the full-body armor worn by the imperial troops in Star Wars.
But much closer to reality are other Future Force Warrior components that could very well become part of standard military kit in the next few years. For example, systems to constantly monitor a soldier’s vital signs, intake of fluid, patterns of sleep, forwarding that information there-and-then (and wirelessly) to any medic. It may even send out a radio call to the nearest field medic should those vital signs show that a soldier has been wounded.
Not a hand-held tricorder, but getting there.
Military personnel also will wear electronic dog tags containing their entire (updated regularly) medical histories, making it possible to tailor treatment, taking account of allergies, drug interactions or other medical conditions or recent treatments. That may also include updates at each stage of care along the evacuation line from where the soldier was injured all the way back to a hospital in the US.
Every soldier, sailor, airman and Marine also will be issued a personal first aid kit containing, among other items, a one-hand tourniquet and special bandages that instantly clot the blood to stop bleeding (rapid loss of blood remains the number one cause of death on the battlefield). Each will also be trained in advanced first aid – and one in six (at least) will receive advanced training as a Combat Life Saver (CLS). While rated as non-medical, the CLS will provide assistance, as needed, to regular medics, as well as add one new layer of on-site support to his or her fellow soldiers.
Corpsmen and medics also are undergoing significant upgrades in both training and equipment. With the addition of a constant stream – and history – of data from each soldier and the ability to “reach back”, with both audio and video, to better medical resources, from the Forward Surgical Team operating within the sound of front-line gunfire to best-in-their-field specialists in the US, the Future Warrior Medic will be able to provide an extraordinary level of medical care within minutes of a soldier being injured.
Some of these elements are already in place in Southwest Asia; most will be used within a few months. Others due in the near future include:
A testing kit using biomarkers to determine the presence and severity of brain injuries
Automatic controls built into ventilators, allowing medics to deliver a level of resuscitation currently only available from intensive-care nurses
Hand-held ultrasound devices to pinpoint internal injuries
Diagnostic and treatment protocols on a digital handbook that medics can carry into combat
Small oxygen generators that can turn ordinary air into medical-grade oxygen
The ability to identify and diagose ten biological weapons including smallpox, anthrax and the plague
Ways to provide replacement blood without the need for whole blood bags that must be refrigerated
An advanced, self-contained training simulator for medics (not a holodeck, but also getting there)
While these advances are aimed at providing fast, competent medical treatment to soldiers, they also will become an integral part of the medical field capability US forces will be able to provide to enemy combatants and civilians alike.
Before the current conflict, US military medicine was not intended to care for children, the elderly or disease and illness not found among the young, physically fit members of the armed forces. Now – and to an even greater extent in the future – such care will be integral to the training and equipment the Navy, Army and Air Force will bring into combat and to humanitarian and disaster relief missions, too.
Before some in uniform today retire, future civilian and military research and development may even go further than the doctors of Star Trek could achieve. The Surgeon General of the Army, Lt. Gen. Kevin C. Kiley, has written that he believes one of the “most exciting possibilities in modern medicine” is the ability to repair or re-grow lost or damaged tissues and limbs. “Regenerative medicine”, Kiley says, is the subject of promising research that he feels “has implications for military medicine in the near future”.
McCoy’s sickbay on the Enterprise was set in the 23rd Century, some 200 years into our future. It could very well be, however, that “Bones” would find himself outdated and old-fashioned in the midst of 21st Century combat medicine. We can only dream of the advances to come in the next 50-100 years, let alone the next 200!
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