Health Services Support

Question 1

What is the health services support instruction number?

Answer 1

Joint Publication 4-02

Question 2

What medical services are provided?

Answer 2

Role 1 to Role 3

Question 3

What is the primary mission of the DOD patient movement system?

Answer 3

Transport U.S. military casualties from within the JOA to appropriate role of care provided in or out of theatre.

Question 4

Define CASEVAC

Answer 4

The unregulated movement of casualties aboard ships, vehicles and aircraft.

Question 5

Define MEDEVAC

Answer 5

Refers to military patient movement using predesignated tactical or logistic aircraft and water crafts

Question 6

What is the only service that has dedicated air MEDEVAC assets?

Answer 6

Army

Question 7

What does AE refer to?

Answer 7

USAF system providing time sensitive en route care to and between MTFs

Question 8

Civil Reserve Air Fleet and contracted civilian carriers will not be used for what?

Answer 8

Airlift contaminated patients in the AE system

Question 9

Who is the single point manager for patient movement?

Answer 9

USTRANSCOM

With exception of intratheatre patient movement

Question 10

Who sets the theater patient movement policy for contingency planning?

Answer 10

Geographic Combatant Commander, GCC.

Question 11

Who is responsible for patient movement in their theater?

Answer 11

Geographic Combatant Commanders, GCCs.

Question 12

Who is the DOD single point manager for intertheater and US patient movement services?

Answer 12

USTRANSCOM.

Question 13

What is responsible for patient movement in the US and worldwide?

Answer 13

USTRANSCOM.

Question 14

What is a joint activity responsible for patient movement management, validation, and coordination in their respective theaters?

Answer 14

Patent Movement Requirement Centers, PMRCs.

Question 15

PMRCs normally exist at what level, to ensure visibility of joint assets for patient movement?

Answer 15

At the joint level.

Question 16

What are the responsibilities of PMRCs?

Answer 16

1. Validate patient movement requests;
2. Maintains visibility of bed availability and medical capability within the theater;
3. Regulates patients to the appropriate MTFs for continued care;
4. Determines mode of transport.

Question 17

What is a joint activity reporting directly to the Commander, USTRANSCOM, through the command surgeon?

Answer 17

Global Patient Movement Requirement Center, GPMRC.

Question 18

Who is responsible for theater-wide patient movement and coordinates with theater MTFs to allocate the proper treatment assets required to support its role?

Answer 18

Theater Patient Movement Requirements Center.

Question 19

Who coordinates with the TPMRC for intertheater patient movement?

Answer 19

PMRC

Question 20

Who is responsible for contacting the PMRC with patient movement requirements and submitting patient movement data?

Answer 20

Patient admin director (clerk/officer) or the medical regulating officer.

Question 21

Movement of patients between points WITHIN a GCCs area of responsibility is referred to as?

Answer 21

INTRAtheater.

Question 22

Movement of patients between GCCs area of responsibility to points OUTSIDE the area of responsibility is known as?

Answer 22

INTERtheater

Question 23

Who is responsible for developing INTRAtheater policies in coordination with service component representatives?

Answer 23

Joint Force Surgeon, JFS.

Question 24

A key component in determining the casualty stream is the?

Answer 24

Theater patient movement policy.

Question 25

In accordance with SecDef policy and CJCS guidance, the theater evacuation policy is normally how many days?

Answer 25

7 days

Question 26

Who is responsible for providing medical rotary-wing support for the ship-to-shore and shore-to-ship patient transport operations in support of patient movement requirements for the hospital ships?

Answer 26

Army

Question 27

Requests for USA evacuation support from the USN and/or USMC is prioritized how?

Answer 27

By urgency

Question 28

What non-medical assets convey cargo/passengers throughout the JOA and could be used to move patients?

Answer 28

Opportune lift

Question 29

Medical equipment and supplies required to support the patient during evacuation are referred to as?

Answer 29

Patient movement items

Question 30

What are the categories of evacuation precedence?

Answer 30

1. Priority I = Urgent;
2. Priority IA = Urgent Surgical;
3. Priority II = Priority;
4. Priority III = Routine;
5. Priority IV = Convenience.

Question 31

Patients requiring resuscitative care for life and limb saving measures, and to attain stabilization for further evacuation within a maximum of one hour are considered what category of evacuation?

Answer 31

Priority IA, Urgent Surgical.

Question 32

Patients requiring emergency, short notice evacuation to save life, limb, or eyesight and to prevent serious complications of the injury, illness or permanent disability are considered what category of evacuation?

Answer 32

Priority I, Urgent

Question 33

A patient who may require emergency, but not surgical intervention within the evacuation phase would be considered in what condition?

Answer 33

Stabilized

Question 34

A patient who can withstand a bed to bed evacuation of up to 12 hours for intratheater movement and 48 hours intertheater movement that is unlikely to require intervention beyond the scope of standard en route care would be considered in what condition?

Answer 34

Stable

Question 35

To minimize the effects of wounds, injuries, and disease on unit effectiveness, readiness, and morale is the mission of?

Answer 35

Health Services Support, HSS

Question 36

What is the primary objective of HSS?

Answer 36

Conserve the commander’s fighting strength of land, sea, air and special operation forces.

Question 37

How many echelons of care make up the HSS system?

Answer 37

5 Echelons

Question 38

What are the 6 health care principles of the HSS system?

Answer 38

1. Conformity;
2. Proximity;
3. Flexibility;
4. Mobility;
5. Continuity;
6. Coordination.

Question 39

What is essential to ensure adequate and sustainable HSS in theater?

Answer 39

Timely, effective planning and coordination.

Question 40

What are the 4 levels of dental care in the HSS system?

Answer 40

1. Emergency dental care;
2. Sustaining dental care;
3. Maintaining dental care;
4. Comprehensive dental care.