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Dr. "Bones" McCoy's Sickbay in the Real World
Apart from becoming the most iconic franchise in the history of television, Star Trek – from “The Original Series” through “Enterprise” – fired the imaginations of scientists, inventors and those who just had a desire to see its advanced technologies become real-world devices.
Perhaps not surprisingly, that is happening much more often than Gene Roddenberry and those who came after him expected. The global flip-phone resembles Captain Kirk’s hand-held communicator, for example, and the Internet is humanity’s first version of Memory Alpha. But some of the most interesting transitions from science fiction to fact are occurring in medicine.
The senior medical officers of today 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 couple of decades. But soon. Perhaps before the end of this decade.
Indeed, the US Army is already starting to use the first elements of its new Land Warrior battle ensemble, which will upgrade a soldier in the field from being a cog in the combat wheel to a central and primary part of a new system-of-systems approach. The success of this effort to date is essential to the medical equation because the continuing research and development (R&D) side of this never-ending process – Future Force Warrior (FFW) – is analyzing some compelling advances not only in protecting soldiers from being injured, but in looking after them if they are wounded.
US military injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan already hold the record for the least number of “killed in action” (those who die in combat before they can be treated) of any conflict in human history. That is largely due to two factors: Advanced body armor that has practically prevented head and chest wounds and superior 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 at the front during the primary combat phase.
As a result, 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 injured until he (or she) is the recipient of life-saving medical care.
Ongoing advances are aimed at developing armor to protect arms and legs – the primary locations of injuries, mostly from explosions and fragmentation, among US military personnel today. Ultimately, should the final quirks be worked out, would be the Future Force Warrior prototype, which just about everyone likens to the full-body armor worn by Star Wars imperial troopers.
Much closer to reality are other FFW elements that perhaps could become integral to standard military gear in the next few years. For example, systems that constantly monitor a soldier's vital signs, intake of fluid, patterns of sleep, passing that information there-and-then (and wirelessly) to any medic. It may even send out a radio call to the closest field medic should those vital signs show that a soldier has been injured.
Such a development may not be a hand-held tricorder, but it is getting there.
Soldiers also will wear electronic dog tags containing their entire (updated regularly) medical histories, which makes it possible to tailor any medical treatment, taking into account allergies, how different drugs interact 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 wounded all the way back to a hospital in the US.
Every soldier, sailor, airman and Marine also will be provided with a personal first aid kit containing, among other items, a one-hand tourniquet and special blood-clotting bandages to stop bleeding (rapid loss of blood remains the primary reason for death on the battlefield). Each will also be trained in advanced first aid – and one in six (at least) will be trained as a Combat Life Saver (CLS). While it receives a non-medical rating, the Combat Life Saver will provide assistance, as needed, to regular medics, as well as adding one new layer of on-site support to his or her fellow war fighters.
Medics and corpsmen 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 video and audio, to better medical resources, from the Forward Surgical Team operating close to front-line gunfire to top-notch specialists in the US, the Future Warrior Medic will be able to provide an unprecedented 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 within a matter of months. Others coming along include:
A testing kit using biomarkers to determine the presence and severity of brain injuries
Automatic controls built into ventilators, that allows medics to deliver a level of resuscitation currently only available from intensive-care nurses
Hand-held ultrasounds that can 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
A system that can quickly identify and diagnose 10 biologic weapons threats, including anthrax, smallpox and 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 such breakthroughs are aimed at providing quick, effective medical treatment to war fighters, they will also become integral to the medical resources the US Armed Forces will be able to give to civilians and enemy combatants.
Prior to the current conflict, US military medicine was not intended to care for the elderly, children or disease and illness that was not found among the young, physically fit members of the armed forces. Now – and to an even bigger extent in the future – such care will be integral to the training and equipment the Navy, Army and Air Force will bring to war and to humanitarian and disaster relief missions, too.
Before some in uniform today retire, future military and civilian R&D may go even beyond what the doctors of Star Trek could do. The Surgeon General of the Army, Lt. Gen. Kevin C. Kiley, has written that he considers one of the “most exciting possibilities in modern medicine” to be the ability to repair or re-grow lost or damaged tissues and limbs. “Regenerative medicine”, Kiley says, is the subject of propitious 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, though, that “Bones” could find himself old-fashioned and outdated 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!