Medical Evacuation Questions and Answers 100% Correct
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Medical Evacuation
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Medical Evacuation
Medical Evacuation Questions and Answers 100% CorrectMedical Evacuation Questions and Answers 100% CorrectMedical Evacuation Questions and Answers 100% CorrectMedical Evacuation Questions and Answers 100% CorrectMedical Evacuation - ANSWER - **The timely and effective movement of the wounded, injur...
Medical Evacuation Questions and
Answers 100% Correct
Medical Evacuation - ANSWER - **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.**
Describe Army Medical Evacuation - ANSWER - **An efficient and effective MEDEVAC system
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•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**
Acquire and Locate - ANSWER - Provide a rapid response to acquire wounded, injured, and ill
personnel. Clear the battlefield of casualties and facilitate and enhance the tactical
,commander's freedom of movement and maneuver. This task is performed by the medical
evacuation crew of the evacuation platform.
Treat and Stabilize - ANSWER - Maintain or improve the patient's medical condition during
transport and provide en route care as required. This task is performed by medical evacuation
crewmembers and providers when necessary.
Outline Theater Evacuation Policies - ANSWER - The policy establishes the length in days of
the maximum period of non-effectiveness (hospitalization and convalescence at Role III or Role
IV) that patients may be held within the theater for treatment.
•A patient who is not expected to be ready to return to duty within the number of days
established in the theater evacuation policy is evacuated to the CONUS or other safe haven.
•The time period established by the theater evacuation policy starts on the date the patient is
admitted to the first Role 3 hospital.
•Exception to policy may be required for certain low density MOS specialty skills, or non-
transportable patients.
2 types of medical evacuation support to theater - ANSWER - Direct Support (treatment)
Area support (logistics)
Medical evacuation supports theater evacuation policy and is an integral part of medical
regulating.
Direct support - ANSWER - requiring a force to support another specific force and authorizing it
to answer directly to the supported force's request for assistance.
Area support - ANSWER - a method of logistics, medical support, and personnel services in
which support relationships are determined by the location of the units requiring support.
Primary Tasks of MEDEVAC - ANSWER - Acquire and locate
Treat and Stabilize
, Intratheater Medical Evacuation
Emergency movement of medical personnel, equipment, and supplies
Intratheater Medical Evacuation - ANSWER - Provide rapid evacuation utilizing dedicated
assets to the most appropriate role of care. Provide a capability to cross-level patients within the
theater hospitals and to transport patients being evacuated out of theater to staging facility prior
to departure. This task is performed by the evacuation platforms in the medical company
(ground ambulance) and medical company (air ambulance).
Emergency movement of medical personnel, equipment, and supplies - ANSWER - Provide a
rapid response for the emergency movement of scarce medical resources throughout an
operational environment.
Casualty Collection Point (CCP) - ANSWER - •A location that may or may not be staffed, where
casualties are assembled for evacuation to a medical treatment facility.
Ambulance exchange point (AXP) - ANSWER - •A location where a patient is transferred from
one ambulance to another en route to a medical treatment facility.
Ambulance Shuttle System - ANSWER - • A system consisting of one or more ambulance
loading points, relay points, and when necessary, ambulance control points, all echeloned
forward from the principal group of ambulances, the company location, or basic relay points as
tactically required.
designated by role II, staffed by role II
Staffing of Relay, Loading, and Ambulance Control Points - ANSWER - •Important points may
be manned to supervise the blanket, litter, and patient movement items (PMI) exchange and to
ensure that messages and medical supplies to be forwarded are expedited.
MEDEVAC vs CASEVAC - ANSWER - **Medical evacuation (MEDEVAC) is performed by
dedicated, medically equipped, and standardized MEDEVAC platforms designed especially for
the MEDEVAC mission to provide en route care by trained medical professionals who provide
the timely, efficient movement and en route care of the wounded, injured, or ill persons from the
battlefield or other locations to MTFs.
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