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By the Combined Joint Task Force - 101
BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan – A Regional Command-East surgeon's conference was held at the Jirga Center, here, June 18-19 to bring all senior health-care leadership in RC-E together, and to discuss current and projected operations that support the military in theater.
"Any time you can come together like this, and listen to what others challenges and accomplishments are, it may improve your own process," said Air Force Maj. Christine S. Taylor the command chief nurse at Camp Eggers, Kabul. "(Learning from others mistakes) means you don't have to re-invent the wheel."
The conference opened with a brief outline of the meeting.
"We are here today to help find out what we can do to help [all of] you," said Lt. Col. Mark McGrail, a surgical officer with Task Force Medical here.
McGrail stressed the fact that the Surgeon General wanted to get more involved in the psychological stress of the service members due to the rise in suicides throughout the military.
He also stated that as a step towards helping with this problem, they've begun training critical stress responders, who would be trained in mental first aid.
"Just bringing these trained individuals in will extend the help needed and also create mental health force multipliers," said McGrail.
They also discussed a system being put into the works of the military medical field called the MC4, medical communications for combat casualty care.
This system allows efficient recording of patient-provider interaction contributing to a service member's complete, electronic medical record.
It also offers commanders greater medical situational awareness.
"This system helps eliminate some (past) main problems: such as lost records and things not being documented," said M.D. Mandeville, MC4 western regional lead. "It is now mandated by Congress that every service member is to have an electronic medical record."
The agenda is to support medical units at all levels, he said.
The surgeons and their representatives brought a lot of useful information to the table. Each one gave outlines of missions and accomplishments as well as concerns.
They discussed this information amongst colleagues from all areas creating informational bridges that will be able to be used in the future; helping Afghanistan's future as a whole and helping make the mission here easier to accomplish.
| Date Taken: | 06.22.2008 |
| Date Posted: | 06.22.2008 12:32 |
| Story ID: | 20752 |
| Location: | BAGRAM AIR FIELD, AF |
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