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A cart transportable mobile medical emergency response facility includes a plurality of hand carried carts with cargo canisters with interchangeable components for establishing a decentralized mobile medical treatment facility at a disaster or other emergency area with a lack of usable hospital faci

A cart transportable mobile medical emergency response facility includes a plurality of hand carried carts with cargo canisters with interchangeable components for establishing a decentralized mobile medical treatment facility at a disaster or other emergency area with a lack of usable hospital facilities. The rapidly deployable and accessible collection of carts and medical equipment delivers point-of-need critical care in the absence of conventional time consuming and complex assembly of medical response facilities.

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1. A method of responding to a disaster including medical casualties at a remote site comprising the steps of: transporting a plurality of compact, complementary, portable modules to the site, each said module comprising a medical emergency response facility (MERF);each MERF comprising a set of comp

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A method of responding to a disaster including medical casualties at a remote site comprising the steps of: transporting a plurality of compact, complementary, portable modules to the site, each said module comprising a medical emergency response facility (MERF);each MERF comprising a set of complementary components including removable, replaceable support frame substantially parallel load supporting rail Members having alternately removable repositionable wheeled strut assemblies and complementary removable repositionable stationary table support stanchions, said support frame rail members further having removable repositionable clamps supporting complementary equipment and patient supports,configuring or reconfiguring the components of each module to one of a plurality of specific functional configurations including reconfiguring a wheeled convertible cart/utility table to a stationary utility table, and a portable utility table having a bed for serving one patient being reconfigured to one of a number of other elements of a field installation system to enable a specific MERF mode of operation therewith, which configured or reconfigured modules in an aggregate interoperate to enable emergency responders an ability to optimally provide medical care to disaster survivors, whereby a module is refigured to form a different specific function when required;arranging said modules around said disaster area wherein said modules having specific configurations provide first medical responders with the ability to treat survivors;configuring some of said modules for performing triage of disaster survivors, caring for patients including pre-operative, surgical operative and post operative recovery categories with equipment carried and supported by said modules, and then transporting said patients away from said disaster area;reconfiguring each of said compact, complementary reconfigurable modules by sliding a plurality of releasable rail engaging clamps upon said pair of substantially parallel load supporting frame rail members, and selected to fix said first plurality of releasable rail engaging clamps to various positions along each selected rail of said pair of substantially parallel load supporting rails, and reconfiguring said compact, portable complementary reconfigurable modules to one of said specific MERF function or mode of operation;providing at least one air of strut assemblies and connecting each respective strut of said pair of strut assemblies at one end to a wheel and releasably connecting each respective strut of said pair of strut assemblies at its other end to one first pair of releasable rail engaging clamps of said plurality of releasable rail engaging clamps;attaching a carrier for at least one of a plurality of medical emergency response components to a second pair of releasable rail engaging clamps; said carrier for said plurality of medical emergency response components selected from the group consisting of a patient support stretcher or Stokes carrier; a height adjustment attachment for adjusting the respective height of the patient's head and/or foot; a support for an elevated medical medicine dispensing carrier; a support for a medical instrument tray; a support for a power source; a pivotal bin containing equipment and supplies; a support for a patient vital sign measuring device; a support for a medical imaging device; a communication device, a support for a light, a tent structure and/or a patient limb support;changing a module from a movable module to a stationary module by removing and replacing said pair of strut assemblies with said wheel with at one least pair of table support stanchions and placing said compact, portable complementary, reconfigurable module at said specified location, and adjusting each stanchion at one end for stable placement on terrain and releasably connecting each stanchion at its other end to said first pair of rail engaging clamps of said plurality of releasable rail engaging clamps;attaching one or more of said plurality of medical emergency response components by said second pair of rail engaging clamps, each of which components and their respective operation define the configurable nature of the module with respect to one said plurality of MERF specific modes of operation;configuring some of said modules for performing triage of disaster survivors, caring for patients including pre-operative, surgical operative and post operative recovery categories with equipment carried and supported by said modules, and then transporting said patients away from said disaster area. 2. The method of responding as set forth in claim 1, wherein transporting comprises using handles releasably connectable to modular support frames to hand carry said modules to said disaster site. 3. The method of responding as set forth in claim 1, wherein transporting includes using any roadway motor vehicle trailers, air transportation means and water transportation means to deploy said modules. 4. The method of responding as set forth in claim 1, wherein a module has a bin which includes a plurality drawers and compartments and wherein said step of configuring includes detaching said bin from a frame and arranging it so that said drawers and compartments are readily accessible to responders. 5. The method of responding as set forth in claim 4, wherein said at least one bin includes an amount of medical treatment supplies and apparatus to operate without external supplies for a minimum of 72 hours out to whatever is required. 6. The method of responding as set forth in claim 1, wherein a specific module includes a source of medical supplies and apparatus available for medical treatment drinking water, oxygen, surgical tools, medicines, fluoroscopic equipment, cardiac monitoring equipment, cardiac resuscitation equipment, cauterization equipment and sterilization equipment. 7. The method of responding as set forth in claim 1, wherein a plurality of bins in specific module configurations are deployed to operate as a covered triage platform, a covered pre-operative platform, a covered operating and a covered post-op recovery platform, respectively, in an interoperable arrangement to assist field surgery in a ergonomically optimized and substantially hygienic fashion. 8. The method of responding as set forth in claim 1, wherein ten or more of said plurality of modules are deployed specifically configured or reconfigured, and linked together to form a field hospital. 9. A method of responding to a disaster including medical casualties at a remote site comprising the steps of: transporting a plurality of compact, complementary, portable modules to the site, each said module comprising a medical emergency response facility (MERF);each MERF comprising a set of complementary components including removable, replaceable support frame members having alternately removable repositionable wheeled struts and complementary removable repositionable stationary stanchions, said support frame members further having removable repositionable clamps supporting complementary equipment and patient supports,configuring or reconfiguring the components of each module to one of a plurality of specific functional configurations to enable a specific MERF mode of operation therewith, which configured or reconfigured modules in an aggregate intemperate to enable emergency responders an ability to optimally provide medical care to disaster survivors;arranging said modules around said disaster area wherein said modules having specific configurations provide first medical responders with the ability to treat survivors;configuring some of said modules for performing triage of disaster survivors, caring for patients including pre-operative, surgical operative and post operative recovery categories with equipment carried and supported by said modules, and then transporting said patients away from said disaster area;providing modules with a modular support frame comprising a pair of substantially parallel load supporting rails;reconfiguring each of said compact, portable, complementary reconfigurable modules by sliding a plurality of releasable rail engaging clamps upon said pair of substantially parallel load supporting rails, and selected to fix said first plurality of releasable rail engaging clamps to various positions along each selected rail of said pair of substantially parallel load supporting rails, and reconfiguring said compact, portable complementary reconfigurable modules to one of said specific MERF function or mode of operation;providing at least one pair of strut assemblies, and connecting each respective strut of said pair of strut assemblies at one end to a wheel and releasably connecting each respective strut of said pair of strut assemblies at its other end to one first pair of releasable rail engaging clamps of said plurality of releasable rail engaging clamps;attaching a carrier for at least one of a plurality of medical emergency response components to a second pair of releasable rail engaging clamps; said carrier for said plurality of medical emergency response components selected from the group consisting of a patient support stretcher or Stokes carrier; a height adjustment attachment for adjusting the respective height of the patients head and/or foot; a support for an elevated medical medicine dispensing carrier; a support for a medical instrument tray; a support for a power source; a pivotable bin containing equipment and supplies; a support for a patient vital sign measuring device; a support for a medical imaging device; a communication device, a support for a light, a tent structure and/or a patient limb support;changing a module from a movable module to a stationary module by removing and replacing said pair of strut assemblies with, said wheel with at one least pair of table support stanchions and placing said compact, portable complementary, reconfigurable module at said specified location, and adjusting each stanchion at one end for stable placement on terrain and releasably connecting each stanchion at its other end to said first pair of rail engaging clamps of said plurality of releasable rail engaging clamps;attaching one or more of said plurality of medical emergency response components by said second pair of rail engaging clamps, each of which components and their respective operation define the configurable nature of the module with respect to one said plurality of MERF specific modes of operation;providing at least one bin that is releasably connectable to said modular support frame structure of said compact, portable, complementary reconfigurable, modules using a number of said plurality releasable rail engaging clamps and storing within said bin during transport said plurality of releasable rail engaging clamps, the at least one pair of strut assemblies, the at least one pair of table support stanchions and the plurality of medical emergency response components; andconfiguring some of said modules for performing triage of disaster survivors, caring for patients including pre-operative, surgical operative and post operative recovery categories with equipment carried and supported by said modules, and then transporting said patients away from said disaster area. 10. The method of responding as set forth in claim 9, further comprising the steps of providing each of said plurality of releasable rail engaging clamps with a lower jaw and moving said lower jaw for releasable contact with one of said rails, providing an upper jaw mounted on said lower jaw, gripping said frame support rails within respective longitudinally extending recesses in each upper jaw, wherein said upper and lower jaws when assembled include optional cooperating recesses; gripping a medical accessory support or said patient support stretcher or said stokes carrier and attaching said clamp to said support member by threaded members. 11. The method of responding as set forth in claim 9, wherein said step of raising or lowering a patient in height adjustment attachment for adjusting the respective height of the patient's head and/or foot comprises maneuvering the patient into Trendelenburg positions with raised or lowered head and/or feet. 12. The method of responding as set forth in claim 9, further comprising the step of providing said at least one bin with a top shell container having a top outer surface and an opposing top inner surface; a bottom shell having a bottom outer surface and an opposing bottom inner surface, and providing said top outer surface of said at least one bin with an interchangeable boss arrangement and the bottom outer surface including a recess arrangement corresponding with the boss arrangement; aligning said at least one bin to a plurality of bins and vertically stacking one bin on top of each other bins of said plurality of bins when detached from said frame, wherein further each top surface may independently function as a table surface. 13. The method of responding as set forth in claim 9, further comprising the step of limiting each of said plurality of compact, complementary, portable modules to a maximum size up to 50 cubic feet storage space, to a maximum weight of no more than 1200 pounds and to facilitate its deployment and configuration or reconfiguration by a single responder. 14. The method of responding as set forth in claim 9 further comprising the step of providing at least one bin that is releasably connectable to said modular support frame ail structure of said compact, portable, complementary reconfigurable, modules using a number of said plurality releasable rail engaging clamps and storing within said bin during transport said plurality of releasable rail engaging clamps, the at least one pair of strut assemblies, the at least one pair of table support stanchions and the plurality of medical emergency response components.