OPERATION DESERT SHIELD DESERT STORM MEDICAL DATA

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Subject: OPERATION DESERT SHIELD  DESERT STORM MEDICAL DATA              

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Folder Title: ODS MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE OF XVIII AIRBORNE CORPS                                                

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              MCCS-HPC                                                                                  19 July 1996

              MEMORANDUM FOR: MAJ Wallace Carroll


              SUBJECT: Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm Medical Data

              1. Major Carroll, most of my data I have already given to LTC Glenn Wasserman with whom
              you have been in contact. He is free to share whatever he has with you. I have dug through my
              boxes of files and retrieved the data sheets which did not go with my Unaccompanied Baggage to
              Germany. The data is not complete, but there is a lot of it. All of it was sent forward through
              channels in 1990/9 1, but apparently much of it got lost. I thought it better to give you more than
              you really wanted than to risk giving you less. I will explain what I am sending you.

              2. First are my graphs of OUTPATIENT data.

                      a. Rates of 18th Abn Corps outpatient visits: Total, GI, Heat Injuries, Respiratory
              Disease, Orthopedic problems, Skin problems, Psychiatric problems, eye problems,
              miscellaneous and other problems. Time frame: September 1990 into March 1991.

                      b. My data were never complete, but in December and January it was close to being
              complete. My lack of data indicated that in OctoberNovember and in February I was missing
              reports from major portions of the medical treatment facilities (MTFs). I took the ratio of how
              complete I believed my data to be (a correction factor) and multiplied it by the nwnbers I had to
              get adjusted rates. The first chart is a line chart of total outpatient visits showing the actual rates
              and the adjusted rates. Then I adjusted the rates for each of the nine subcategories of visits. If
              the rates have been adjusted by the correction factor the legend says adjusted rates.

uld find on outpatient data from the Air Force and the Marines and put
              those two and the Army Adjusted Rates together on one graph for total visits and for the
              subcategories.

              3. 1 wrote a nine page After Action Report to the commander of the 44th Medical Brigade on
              IO March 199 1. I have included this AAR.


              4. On 4 Mar 91 1 wrote a Memorandum to the 18th Abn Corps Surgeon on the subject of Out-
              patient Morbidity Surveillance. I have included this memo.

              5. On 3 Mar 91 1 wrote a memorandum to the DCCS of the 44th Medical Brigade on the subject
              of the Anthrax Immunization Program in Log Base Charlie. I was involved heavily in this in the
              week before the start of the ground war. I have included this memo.





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