Ecnelons Above Brigade Medical Units Flashcards
What medical functions are found in the Echelons above Brigade?
The first area with all 10 medical functions
- MCAS, FST
- Area Med lab
- CSH, Minimum care detachment
- Med Det (COSCO)
- MEDCOM (DS), MEDBDE, MMB
- Med co (ground ambulance)
- MEDLOG company, med det (blood)
- Med Det (prev med)
- MDVSS
- dental (area support)
What is the medical mission command mission?
Mission: provide medical mission command and admin supervision of assigned and attached med units
What does medical command (deployment support ) MEDCOM (DS) provide?
Provides AO Mission Command for EAB med units
- med brigade (MEDBDE)
- Multifunctional Med BN (MMB)
- Combat Support Hospital (CSH)
- any EAB med unit not task org under a MEDBDE, MMB or CSH
Serves as senior med command in AOR
Conducts AOR med operations plans and med contingency plans
Is joint capable w augmentation
What does medical brigade (MEDBDE) provide?
Provides scalable expeditional medical mission command capability for assigned and attached med units
- MMBs and CSH
- attached units
- task org to support deployed corps forces (corps support command or division sustainment brigades
What types of units may be attached to MMB, CSH, or directly assigned to a med brigade
- Med Co, areas support (MCAS)
- Med Co Ground ambulance
- MEDLOG companies and med detachments (Blood support) units
- FST
- Other med function detachments (PM, Dental, Combat operational stress, or division sustainment brigades)
What does the Multifunctional Medical Battalion (MMB) provide?
Mission
- provides a scalable, flexible, and modular capability for medical mission command, administrative assistance, logistical support, and technical control of assigned and attached medical function organizations
- task org for support of deployed BCTs and EAB forces on mission requirements
- may be assigned to a medical brigade (MEDBDE) or to a MEDCOM(DS)
What element is organic to the Medical battalion?
Only the battalion HQ and Headquarters Detachment (HHD) is organic
- modular battalion-role medical hq can be scaled upwards as complexity of mission and battlefield increases
What does the Medical Company Area Support (MCAS)
Mission: provides Role 2 AHS support win its assigned AO, as well as unit level (role 1) support for assigned and attached units w/o organic role 1 capability
- treatment/sick call services
- ancillary services (lab, x-ray, dental)
- ground ambulance/evac support
- med log
- BH
May reinforce support to the BCTs
What is the mission of the medical company (ground ambulance)?
Mission: to provide ground evac w/in theater
- usually attached to an MMB and employed w/in the EAB area
- consists of company HQ and ambulance platoons
What are some common missions of medical company (ground ambulance)?
Common missions
- medical evac from med companies (BSMCs, and MCASs) to AOR hospitals
- augmentation of med co evac assets
- movement of patients between hospitals w/in EAB or to aeromedical staging facilities for evac from the AOR
- emergency movement of medical personnel and supplies
What is the mission of the Medical logistics (MEDLOG) company?
Mission: provide the following MEDLOG support to EAB med units operating w/in the AOR:
- med material (class VIII)
- med maintenance
- single and multi-vision optical lens fabrication
- patient movement items (PMI)
Does MEDLOG have blood?
They have no organic blood support capability (distributed element from a medical detachment (blood support) may be attached)
AOR will be assigned by its higher HQ (MMB or MEDBDE)
What is a MEDLOG company comprised of?
Company HQ
Log support platoon
- receiving/storage section
- stock control section
- shipping section
- optical support
Maintenance platoon
- organization maintenance section
- med maintenance section
What is the mission of the medical detachment (blood support)
Mission: provides collection, manufacturing, storage and distribution of blood and blood products to EAB med units
What does a MED detachment (blood support) element look like?
Five-soldier forward distribution section
- may attach to MEDLOG company for ops
What type of blood product is typically found at the Role II?
RBC’s
What makes up EAB ancillary support units?
Dental services COSC Prev med Vet services Area med lab services and support
What is the dental company (area support) mission?
Mission: provide operational dental care consisting of emergency and essential dental care designed to eliminate potential dental emergencies on an area basis
What types of care do dental companies provide?
Emergency care
- relief of pain
- elimination of acute infection
- control of life-threat oral conditions
- tx of trauma to teeth/jaw/facial structure
Essential care
- dental tx necessary to intercept potential emergencies
- care necessary for prevention of lost duty time and preservation of fighting strength
What is the mission of medical detachment combat and operational stress control (COSC)
Mission: provide COSC prevention and treament services in direct support of BCT and EAB units and on an area basis to a joint or multinational force as directed
Where do you normally find COSC units?
Normally assigned to MEDCOM (DS) or MEDBDE, may be further assigned to a MMB or CSH
May be used to proved COSC support on an area basis to all services and indeg population as directed in stability operations or support operations