W. Staggs, S. Rhodes
GRAM Tactical, Tennessee, United States
Keywords: emergency, MASCAL, medicine, first responder, military
MedMag is a system to store, access and distribute critical medications immediately and efficiently to others in tactical or MASCAL situations. MedMag is a durable magazine of individual pods designed with pre-loaded, sublingual emergency medications, in a dissolvable tablet rather than injectables, creating the ability to better store, transport, distribute, and track the use and dosage in mass casualty environments. The MedMag is designed to be scalable in size for multiple uses for mass amounts of civilians. MedMag is essentially a carrying case for multiple, individual PODs which contain a dissolvable tablet pre-loaded with emergency meds. The carrying cases can dispense the PODs just as you would an ammo magazine or a PEZ dispenser. This allows dispersal to be exponential and go out to people in a chaotic, MASCAL situation, such as a chemical attack at a stadium. Civilians can then orally ingest on their own, rather than auto-injectors. Currently, auto-injectors are too sensitive to the elements to have outside temperature control and storage options are very sensitive. Transportation is too cumbersome to be effective as immediately to emergency sites.