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FY22 Best Medic Competition > 4-02.3 - Army Health System Support to Maneuver Forces > Flashcards

4-02.3 - Army Health System Support to Maneuver Forces Flashcards

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The Army Health System is defined as what?

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A component of the military health system that is responsible for training, predeployment, deployment, and post-deployment operations

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What is Health Service Support?

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Services performed, provided, or arranged to promote, improve, conserve, or restore the mental or physical well-being of personnel

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What is the principle of conformity?

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It dictates that AHS plans must conform to the maneuver commander’s tactical plan, guidance and priorities

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4
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Distribution of medical resources and capabilities is known as what?

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Role of care

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What is advanced trauma management?

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Resuscitative and stabilizing medical or surgical treatment to save life, limb, and prepare them for further evac without jeopardizing their well-being or prolonging the state of their condition

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What is role 1 medical care?

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unit level medical care

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What is done at role 1?

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Immediate life saving measures, disease/non-battle injury prevention, combat and operational stress control, patient and location acquisition, MEDEVAC from supported units, treatment provided from combat medics or treatment squads.

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What is role 2?

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Medical care that is provided at MTFs. Advanced trauma management and TC3 are performed, and additional emergency measures are instituted but do not go beyond the immediate necessities.

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What 10 medical functions is the AHS compromised of?

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Mission command, medical treatment, hospitalization, MEDEVAC, MEDLOG, PVNTMED services, veterinary services, dental services, COSC, and medical lab services.

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What does the general threat influence?

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Character, types, and severity of wounds and injuries to which our forces may be exposed, enemy’s ability and willingness to disrupt AHS operations and to respect the conditions of the
Geneva Conventions

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Which special staff officer is designated at all levels of command (battalion and above)?

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Command surgeons. They are charged with planning and monitoring the execution of the AHS misson.

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What is the focus of the AHS?

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To support BCTs and subordinate units rapidly locate, acquire, treat, stabilize, and evac. patients within 72 hrs

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The PLT HQs is compromised of what?

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Battalion surgeon, the field medical assistant, and the platoon sergeant

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What is the brigades surgeon section and what is it responsible for?

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Field surgeon, medical OPS officer, health care NCO

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What is the division surgeon responsible for?

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AHS support for the division and for the technical supervision of medical activities in the command.

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What does MEDCOM deployment support do?

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Provides mission command, admin assistance, and technical supervision of assigned and attached units.

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What is the mission of the medical brigade?

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Organize, resource, train, sustain, deploy, and provide mission command to assigned/attached AHS support units in order to provide flexible, responsive, and effective HSS and FHP to supported forces conducting unified land OPS.

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What is the mission of the medical battalion?

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Provide scalable, flexible, technical supervision, and modular mission command for assigned & attached medical functional organizations.

19
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What are additional capabilities in the way of organizational units?

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Medical company (ground ambulance), Medical detachment (blood support), Medical logistics (MEDLOG) company, Medical team (optometry), Medical detachment (veterinary service support), Medical detachment (PVNTMED), Medical detachment (COSC),, and Medical company (area support)

20
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What is the mission of the medical platoon?

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To provide role 1 AHS support

21
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What two elements normally form the battalion aid station?

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medical PLT HQs and treatment squads

22
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The field medical assistant is commonly referred to as what?

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Medical OPS officer

23
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What is the primary role of the medical OPS officer?

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PLT HQs AHS support planning and OPS functions

24
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What does a treatment squad consist of and how do they operate?

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Consists of two teams (A & B), and can operate as a squad or split-team for a limited time.

25
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What grade is the field surgeon?

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O3

26
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Who is the clinical professional of team B in a treatment squad?

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The PA

27
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What can a PA do?

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Establishes & conducts treatment team OPS, provides medical treatment within their scope, provides ATM for wounded patients, Provides training, and ensures medical records are maintained.

28
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What is a CCP?

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Casualty collection point

29
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What is a Casualty collection point?

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A specific location where casualties are assembled to be transported to a MTF.

30
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How do medical PLT/SEC role 1 MTFs request class VIII supplies?

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From the BMSO established by the BSMC.

31
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Medical companies are dependent upon what?

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-Appropriate elements within theater for religious, legal, finance, and personnel/Admin services.

32
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What does the patient holding squad perform?

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Provides care with up to 20 holding cots.

33
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AHS Principles

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conformity, mobility, proximity, flexibility, continuity, and control

34
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What kind of role does terrain and weather play during operations?

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Can have natural barriers and impediments which affects how a force is
employed and the types of maneuver that can be conducted. Will influence the types and severity of wounds incurred.

35
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What is decisive action?

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continuous and simultaneous application of:  
• Movement to contact
• Attack
• Exploitation
• Pursuit
36
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What is “Mass Casualty Operation”?

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When the number of casualties exceeds the available medical capability to rapidly treat and evacuate them

FY22 Best Medic Competition (19 decks)

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