Army Health System Planning Flashcards
What is the focus of the medical planning process?
The focus of medical planning process should be to quickly develop a flexible, tactically sound, fully integrated and synchronized plan that supports the tactical commanders mission
What are the medical planners responsibilities?
- analyzes the medical requirements before, during and after all phases of an operation
- conducts medical estimate (mission analysis) as the tactical staff conducts MDMP (parallel planning)
- develops medical plan for each COA developed
- Considers medical support capability of each proposed COA
- integrates the medical plan w the tactical plan
What are the AMEDD functional areas?
- Medical treatment
- Evacuation and medial regulating
- Prev med
- Med log and blood mgmnt
- Medical mission command
- Hospitalization
- Combat and operational stress control (COSC)
- Lab
- Vet
- Dental
What are the medical operational planning factors?
- maintain med presence w soldier
- maintain the health of command
- save lives
- clear the battlefield of casualties
- provide state of the art med care
- ensure early RTD
There are 6 principles of the army health system what are they?
- Conformity
- Proximity
- Flexibility
- Mobility
- Continuity
- Control
With the principles of the army health system explain Conformity
- ensures that a comprehensive AHS support plan to conforms to tactical plans
- medical assets are arrayed on the battlefield property
With the principles of the army health system explain proximity
- provide med support a the right time/place
- med resources employed as far forward as possible, w/o impeding ongoing ops
With the principles of the army health system explain flexibility
- ability to shift AHS resources to meet changing battlefield requirements
- effective managing scarce medical resources so that they benefit the greatest number of soldiers in the AO
With the principles of the army health system explain mobility
- AHS assets remain in supporting distance to support maneuvering forces
- vehicle hardening equal to that of supported unit
With the principles of the army health system explain continuity
- patient moves through progressive, phased roles of care
- each soldier receives the care req to optimize pt outcome
With the principles of the army health system explain control
- resources are efficiently employed
- ensure scope and quality of medical tx meets professional standards and policies
During MDMP step 2 mission analysis what is the medical planners role?
To conduct medical estimate (mission analysis)
What is Medical Estimate
The medical estimate is a continuous process which systematically examines all aspects of operations. It produces the necessary task organization for decentralized execution and flexible med support on battlefield
What is the main purpose during medical analysis?
The main purpose during medical analysis should be to examine the following 7 areas in depth:
- Enemy situation
- Friendly situation
- Characteristics of the area of responsibility (AOR)
- Strengths to be supported
- Health of the command
- Facts and assumptions
- Specified, implied and essential tasks
What do we track in enemy situation?
- strength and location
- combat efficiency
- capabilities
- logistics
- EPW casualty estimate
What do we track in friendly situation?
- strength and disposition
- combat efficiency
- rear battle plan
- weapons systems