Brief Medical Logistics Flashcards
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Classes of Supply
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Class I - Subsistence (food)
Class II - Clothing and individual equipment
Class III - Petroleum
Class IV - Construction materials
Class V - Ammunition
Class VI - Personal demand items
Class VII - Major end items (e.g. tanks, containers, etc.)
Class VIII - Medical material, including medical repair parts
Class IX - Repair parts and components
Class X - Material to support nonmilitary programs; such as agricultural development
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MEDLOG Functions
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- Medical materiel (Class VIIIA)
- Medical equipment maintenance and repair
- Optical fabrication and repair
- Patient movement items (PMI)
- Medical gases
- Blood (Class VIIIB) storage and distribution
- Regulated medical waste (including hazardous material)
- Medical facilities and infastructure
- Medical contracting
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Factors unique to medical supply that impact its use
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- Judgment of the physician
- Patient’s medical condition
- Environmental conditions
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Specific peculiarities of Class VIII material include:
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- Items subject to deterioration (short shelf life and dated items): subject to damage by freezing, high heat, or improper refrigerated
- Flammable or corrosive items
- Controlled medical items: alcohol, narcotics, and precious metals
- Radioactive materials
- Fragile items requiring special packaging and hadling
- Medical gases
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Strategic Level of Sustainment
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- Determination of material requirements
- Acquisition, assembly, and fielding of medical supplies and equipment
- Management of strategic programs for medical force modernization and material readiness
- Planning and executing the release or acquisition of Class VIII material to complete the outfitting of medical units at the time of deployment and coordination for support into the theater and staging areas
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Operational Level of Support
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- Provide medical mission command elements in theater
- Link between strategic and tactical with MEDLOG units forward positioned
- Requisition and Distribution of Class VIII supply
- Focuses on the mission and requirements of the combatant command and supporting Army Service component command
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Tactical Level of Support
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- Essential functions that include resupply and maintenance
- Identification of unit requirements to ensure availability of medical material and equipment to sustain uninterrupted AHS support
- Activities are aimed at satisfying immediate AHS support requirements
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What are the different levels of support in Medical Logistics?
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- Strategic
- Operational
- Tactical
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What are the essential functions of MEDLOG support at the tactical level?
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- Resupply
- Maintenance
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The Installation Medical Support Activity (IMSA) is a ____ level asset. What does it provide?
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- Strategic
- Provides local medical materiel management and supply support for internal customers of the MTF
- Provides installation-level support to strategic programs for force projection and mobilization of deploying units
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What are the MEDLOG assets at the tactical level?
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- MMB - Multifunctional Medical Battalion
- MLC - Medical Logistics Company
- BMSO - Brigrade Medical Supply Office
- SPO - Support Operations
- Roles 1, 2, and 3
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What are the MEDLOG assets at the strategic level?
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- US Army Medical Research and Material Command (USAMRMC)
- US Army Medical Material Agency (USAMMA)
- Installation Medical Support Activity (IMSA)
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What are the MEDLOG assets at the operational level?
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- MEDCOM DS
- Medical Logistics Management Center (MLMC)
- Theater lead agent for Medical Material (TLAMM)
- Medical Materiel Centers (MMC)
Current MMCs: - USAMMC-E: Europe
- USAMMC-K: Korea
- USAMMC-SWA: Southwest Asia
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Class VIII Supply Operations for Role 1
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- DCAM (automated system)
- Medical Materiel Mobilization Planning Tool (M3PT) - replaced by GCSS-Army
- Budget Management
- Serviceability of Equipment
- Ambulance Backhaul resupply method
- Senior Line Medics
Go with what the slides say regarding M3PT instead of GCSS
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Class VIII Supply Capabilities at Role 2
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- DCAM (digital ordering and catalog management)
- Pharmacy
- Medical Maintenance
- Blood Management
- Quality Control
- Budget Management
- Regulated Medical waste
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BSMC Supply Operations
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- BMSO serves as the forward distribution point that facilitates resupply and distribution of all Class VIII for the brigade
- MSO maintains a small authorized stockage list (ASL) of Class VIII. The ASL is limited to 100 - 300 lines of critical line items to support Roles 1 and 2 medical requirements for the BCT.
- MES organic to the treatment and ambulance platoons in the BSMC can also be used as a backup source of supply for emergency resupply to the medical platoons
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MCAS Supply Operations
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- Maintains its own Class VIII basic load of three days of supply (DOS). Class VIII resupply must be coordinated directly with the supporting MLC.
- Maintains a small authorized stockage list of medical supplies that may be used to resupply the area support treatment squads and teams throughout EAB area of operations
- MES organic to the treatment and ambulance platoons of the MCAS can be used as an emergency resupply to treatment squads and teams.
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What is the primary means of movement for sustainment resupply?
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General support transportation assets are the primary means of movement for sustainment resupply of Class VIII materiel
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How does the Role 1 requisition supplies?
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- Request their Class VIII supplies from the Brigade Medical Supply Office (BMSO) of the Brigade Support Medical Company (BSMC)
- Routine requisitions are sent by the Role 1 BAS via digital requst to the supporting BMSO. If a high priority request cannot be filled by the BMSO, it is sent to the next higher MEDLOG SSA that can fill the requisition.
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DCAM automates Class VIII ordering at which roles of care?
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Roles 1 and 2
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What capabilities does MC4 provide?
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- Offers deployable medical units a wide range of integrated applications that bridge tactical and sustaining base information management and information technology health care systems
- Provide the Army computer infrastructure to enable automated medical data collection and sharing
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Maintenance Support at Role 1
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- Medical PL is responsible for ensuring that operator maintenance is performed and that a medical maintenance support plan is established and coordinated with the BSMC
- The medical platoon MES (medical equipment set) contains multiple maintenance significant items. When a repair is needed, the medical PL reports the equipment status immediately to the BMSO
- If the medical equipment cannot be evacuated to the BSMC, a contact repair team from the MLC can be dispatched to diagnose and remedy the fault
- The medical equipment is then transported to the BSMC via logistics or medical vehicle if available
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Who is responsible at the Role 1 for ensuring operator level maintenance?
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Medical Platoon Leader
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Who can provide emergency medical equipment maintenance for the medical platoons in the BCT?
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The Brigade Medical Supply Office (BMSO)
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If medical equipment needing repair cannot be evacuated to the BSMC, who can send a contact repair team to diagnose and remedy the fault?
Medical Logistics Company
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Maintenance Support at Role 2
* The BSMC’s BMSO provides primary field maintenance for the company and may provide emergency medical equipment maintenance for the medical platoons in the BCT.
* Units without organic medical equipment maintenance and repair capabilities are required to coordinate with the BMSO for field maintenance support.
* Units in the BCT must also coordinate with the BMSO for sustainment maintenance support, which is provided by the MLC contact repair teams.
* The BMSO carries minimal Class VIII repair parts in support of the brigade. When required, Class VIII repair parts are requested from the supporting MLC.
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MEDLOG Plan Considerations
* ** Resupply procedures established?
* Transportation support system described?
* Support requirements for collection and disposal of medical waste?**
* Special medical supply requirements identified based on the mission and the AO
* Special storage requirements satisfied?
* Special containers and materiel packaging supplies and equipment needed been identified and planned?
* Procedures for proper handling of controlled and regulated Class VIII items?
* Oxygen requirements identified and resupply procedures described?
* Blood management functions conducted?
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Medical Maintenance Considerations
* **Mandatory parts lists or bench stock requirements specified?
* Does the plan address how field and sustainment maintenance is to be provided?
* Replacement items addressed?**
* Special medical maintenance requirements addressed?
* Have power requirements been identified?
* Plan for test, measurement, and disagnostic equipment (TDME) repair and calibration?
* Procedures for medical maintenance and reparable items covered?
* New equipment capability request procedures addressed?
* Contractor support integrated into the maintenance plan?
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Medical Resupply Set
A preconfigured list of supplies and designed to refill MES (minor sets) for medical units operating at brigade and below
* Designed to replace consumable items in the MES
* Additional 7 days of supply
* Intended to operationally sustain the MES for which it was developed
* Used for contingency planning
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Push Packages
A predetermined amount of supplies designed and managed by the using unit in coordination with the supporting IMSA
* Ideally, they are coordinated for by the unit prior to deployment
* Issued during early entry operations on a scheduled basis or upon request
* Contents standardized by the brigade or division surgeon
