He heads the baur row of medicine for the navy. I lacked at his bay oh in the program, educated in georgia and hes had a great career in the Navy Commanding several hospitals, winning several awards and his most recent command was as the commander of walter reed, and i was so glad that he was here to hear the panel that we had with our medical peer to peer exercise. And hes going to talk to us now about navy medicine. With that, please help me welcome vice admiral matthew nathan. applause . Thank you, general, very much. Well, its a pleasure here and im honored to be able to speak in front of such a distinguished audience. Secretary schultz, mrs. Schultz, pleasure it see you and you lend tremendous gaffe tas to this program. General spees, distinguished flag officers, general officers and mostly everybody here who is in the readiness business, i am honored to be speaking to a group of people and that would include i think everybody in this hanger deck who is part of that cadre of indiv
That was not able to stand. The team from the hospital that i was with and the other hospitals really looked at what were their hands on capabilities and some of the things that stood out the most is a portable oxygen generator that sits in the corner of the shock trauma platoon unit and doesnt have to be hooked up to our large liquid oxygen tanks and all that piping that might get disrupted during a major seismic event. Having something just that simple could make a huge difference. Maybe we were thinking small but just really direct hablds on patient care, there was a portable iv pump and fluid warmer that literally would fit in your hand and is Battery Powered. Anything thats portable and is Battery Powered will make a huge difference in the type of disasters were facing. We can leave it with the patient, move it with the patient, i know they have a whole list of other things they want and we have to take a lack at that and see what we can actually do. I do have one question and it
I found absolutely fascinating as a way to bring a real Life Experience to that individual. For me that was a fantastic tool that you have and i thought that was wonderful. Were going to be little advertisement were going to be demonstrating that capability at our display at the marina green so if youd like to come see that, thats available. Any final questions . Id like to thank our panelists very much. As rob mentioned earlier, the exercise series we have put on and started 3 years ago has really become, for the department of Emergency Management and we hope for the military, this foundational piece of the fleet week humanitarian exchange. Its been a wonderful way for us to Work Together on some of these common issues and figure out how our agencies are all going to integrate. I think the time and effort that has been expended by both the military planners and also the civilian planners is definitely going to be bearing fruit in years to come when something happens. I know we are qui
Thank you so much for your efforts. Theres significant city wide efforts going on. One of the cities leading the way is the city of chicago. We are proud to be joined by chicago commissioner of Public Health. Thank you very much. Would you standup . [ applause ] one of our great partners at the federal level, assistant secretary of defense dr. Jonathan woodson. Dr. Woodson is leading an effort across the military to stop smoking and tobacco use. We can all agree that deserves some applause. Thank you dr. Woodson. [ applause ] we are pleased the local champions and statewide champions are here today. Its an example of the exciting work under way but work we need to accelerate and continue. Today, we meet at a cross roads. Over the past five decades, we are learned what it will take to end the tobacco epidemic and make the next generation tobacco free. Scientists, researchers and policymakers determined what works and the steps necessary to end the tragic epidemic. The question is, what
Announcement of the incident. But the real key is that those plans will need to be immediately operational so that we can sort out who really does need to come in and get what level of care and that varies by facility, depending on their capabilities, along with hospital lockdown plans to secure the overall Physical Plant and make sure those capabilities remain intact for all sorts of threats. And the other key piece is dph is an immediate back up to that with the ability to use our clinics and our other partners to stand up potentially alternate care centers and other types of, depeplding on the situation, other types of areas where people can be triaged or get information or get care if necessary. So those plans are in place, were constantly developing them because we have to really look and we dont have the ability to predesignate every site, after an earthquake we need to make sure each and every site we announce to the public is safe before its announced so its a complex type of s