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Market exploration: forward surgical capability

DROPS containerised -air portable, MASH type containers. Ditto power supplys.

Having in the past fitted out generators in shipping containers for the oil industry, it must be possible to fit out shipping containers with the required medical facilities to the level of medical help required. All Air portable.
 
Isn't that description basically an ambulance?


A 20-40 foot shipping container has the capacity to hold much more than an ambulance, and can be connected together ad infinitum.... Having seen them used on construction sites for site offices, stores, workshops, canteens etc, its a viable consideration. Once fitted out, they can be air lifted anywhere suitable and retrieved just as quick.
 
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A 20-40 foot shipping container has the capacity to hold much more than an ambulance, and can be connected together ad infinitum.... Having seen them used on construction sites for site offices, stores, workshops, canteens etc, its a viable consideration. Once fitted out, they can be air lifted anywhere suitable and retrieved just as quick.

That’s more shitty than a shitty thing on a shitty day in shitsville, shitshire, shitland.

Go and stand in the corner.
 
A 20-40 foot shipping container has the capacity to hold much more than an ambulance, and can be connected together ad infinitum.... Having seen them used on construction sites for site offices, stores, workshops, canteens etc, its a viable consideration. Once fitted out, they can be air lifted anywhere suitable and retrieved just as quick.
The problem with that is containers are heavy and would need firm, level, prepared ground to be situated on or else they will sink. This also creates problems if you are trying to link them together on uneven surfaces.
Great for setting up on car parks, and other hard surfaces, not good for in the 'field'.
Unlike tents.
 
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The MoD could make a start by not binning all the medical professionals that have experience of dealing with such injuries. Any equipment is useless without that skill and knowledge.

At what level do they want this equipment? Secure base location, such as Bastion Hospital? FOB? or fully mobile such as MERT.

It seems to me that this can never be a single approach, but multilayered with capability improving along the chain.

The system worked well in Afghanistan to a point, but if you were injured somewhere like Musa Quala your chances of survival were greatly reduced in comparison to being injured near Gereshk.
 
Heavy lift helicopters, sky cranes, sikorsky, just behind the lines, nearest secure location,............... As previously stated, a viable consideration nothing more!
Which of the few 'heavy lift helicopters' in commercial operation do you suggest? How far do you want to move these 40' ISO containers? How do you get these 40' ISO containers from storage to the forward area where they're required? Viable? Don't think so.
 
Desirable requirements
  • complete solution: fully integrated solution, including transportation, which is fully self-sufficient
  • low personnel demands: deployable by 2 or 3 personnel, with low training demand
  • modifiable: Army has certain technologies that will need to be integrated into the solution, such as medical equipment and machines, and communication devices
What we want
We are particularly interested in turn-key, fully-integrated solutions which provide mobile surgical capabilities designed for deployment in austere environments, such as those with very limited access to infrastructure, utilities and resupply. We are also interested in solutions with the potential to be developed into fully-integrated solutions.

What we don’t want
We are not interested in solutions that will require sophisticated infrastructure, logistical chain or need a high degree of training in order to deploy.


The last bit precludes helicopters to deliver it I'm assuming
 
Heavy lift helicopters, sky cranes, sikorsky, just behind the lines, nearest secure location,............... As previously stated, a viable consideration nothing more!

I failed my first flight in a Skycrane when I walked out to the dispersal to find the was no Skycrane. We hadn’t bought any.
 

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