MEDEVAC

Question 1

Medical Evacuation

FM 4-02, 11-1

Answer 1

• System that provides the vital linkage between the roles of care necessary to sustain the patient during transport
• Accomplished by providing enroute medical care which enhances the individual’s prognosis and reduces long-term disability
• Medical Evacuation occurs at the tactical, operational, and strategic levels and requires the synchronization and integration of service component medical evacuation resources

Question 2

Theatre Evacuation Policy

Reference: FM 4-02, 11-5

Answer 2

• Establishes, # of days, the max period of non-effectiveness (hospitalization and convalescence) that patients may be held within the theater for Tx
• Established by the Secretary of Defense, with the advice of the JCS, and upon the recommendation of the combatant commander
• Does not mean the patient will be held in theater for the entire time
• Patients not expected to RTD in time will be treated, stabilized, then evacuated out of theater as soon as medically feasible

* moving toward prolonged field care in case of peer-to-peer conflict

Question 3

Short Theater Evacuation Policy

What does it do?

Answer 3

• Requires fewer hospital beds in theater
• Greater number of beds required CONUS
• Increases demand for intra-theater Air Force evacuation resources
• Increases requirements for replacements

Question 4

Long Theater Evacuation Policy

What does it do?

Answer 4

• Greater accumulation of patients and a demand for a larger AHS structure in the theater
• Increases the requirements for hospitals, engineer support, and all aspects of base development for the AHS
• Greater proportion of patients RTD within the theater, reduces the loss of experienced manpower
• Longer intra-theater evacuation policy may decrease demand on evacuation assets and system

Question 5

Why have Combat Support Hospitals now transitioned into Field Hospitals and Hospital Centers?”

Answer 5

CSHs were less modular and too small to accommodate prolonged field care that would be needed in a near-peer battlefield.

Question 6

MEDEVAC flow

• Explain the flow through the roles of care
• This is optimal flow in linear battle-field, what challenges could be faced in peer-ro-peer

Answer 6