Define medical evacuation Flashcards
Define Medical Evacuation
Medical evacuation is the timely and effective movement of the wounded, injured, or ill to and between medical treatment facilities on dedicated and properly marked medical platforms with en route care provided by medical personnel.
What are the types of medical evacuation support?
- Direct support
- Area support
Define En route Care
En route Care is the care required to maintain the phased treatment initiated prior to evacuation and the sustainment of the patient’s medical condition during evacuation.
What are the goals of an efficient and effective MEDEVAC system?
- Minimizes mortality by rapidly and efficiently moving the sick, injured, and wounded to and between MTFs
- Ensures continuum of care between roles of care
- Serves as a force multiplier as it clears the battlefield
- Builds the morale of Soldiers
- Provides critical en route medical care
- Provides economy of force
- Provides connectivity of the AHS as appropriate to the Military Health System
Define Medical Evacuation Primary Tasks
- Acquire and locate
- Treat and stabilize
What is Intratheater Medical Evacuation?
Intratheater Medical Evacuation provides rapid evacuation utilizing dedicated assets to the most appropriate role of care and cross-levels patients within theater hospitals.
Identify Medical Evacuation Tools
- Casualty Collection Point
- Ambulance Exchange Point
- Ambulance Shuttle System
Define Medical Evacuation vs Casualty Evacuation
MEDEVAC is performed by dedicated, medically equipped platforms providing en route care, while CASEVAC is the movement of casualties without en route medical care.
What is the movement of remains in the context of medical evacuation?
The movement of remains is an important logistical function but is NOT a task supported by MEDEVAC units or teams.
What are the attributes of Medical Evacuation?
- Dedicated resources
- Maneuver BN Medical Platoon Ambulance Squad
- Evacuation Platoon, BSMC
- Evacuation Platoon, MCAS
- Medical Company, Ground Ambulance
- Medical Company, Air Ambulance
What are the categories of evacuation precedence?
- Priority I-URGENT
- Priority IA-URGENT-SURG
- Priority II-PRIORITY
- Priority III-ROUTINE
- Priority IV-CONVENIENCE
What does a 9-Line MEDEVAC Request include?
- Line 1: location using 8-digit grid
- Line 2: Frequency and suffix
- Line 3: # p/ts by precedence
- Line 4: Resources needed
- Line 5: Number of p/ts by type
- Line 6: security of pickup site (wartime)
- Line 7: method of marking the pickup site
- Line 8: patient nationality and status
- Line 9: CBRN (wartime), terrain description (peace time)
What are the METT-TC(I) factors in Medical Evacuation Mission Considerations?
- Mission considerations
- Tactical commander’s plan
- Enemy’s most likely course of action
- Anticipated patient load
- Expected areas of patient density
- Availability of MEDEVAC resources
- Availability, location, and type of supporting MTFs
- Adherence to the Geneva Conventions
- Airspace control plan
- Obstacle plans
- Fire support plan
- Road network/dedicated MEDEVAC routes
- Weather conditions
What is the role of property exchange in Medical Evacuation?
Whenever a patient is evacuated, medical items of equipment remain with the patient, and the receiving Army element exchanges like non-serialized property with the transferring element.
True or False: Providing guards for the transport of detainees is the responsibility of MEDEVAC units.
False
What is the impact of a shorter evacuation policy on AHS requirements?
- Fewer hospital beds required in the theater
- Greater demand for evacuation resources
- Increased requirements for replacements in combat units
What is the impact of a longer evacuation policy on AHS requirements?
- Greater accumulation of patients
- Increased requirements for medical logistics
- Increased requirements for hospitals and base development
- Greater proportion of patients to RTD within the theater
