Health Services Support Flashcards
(40 cards)
What is the health services support instruction number?
Joint Publication 4-02
What medical services are provided?
Role 1 to Role 3
What is the primary mission of the DOD patient movement system?
Transport U.S. military casualties from within the JOA to appropriate role of care provided in or out of theatre.
Define CASEVAC
The unregulated movement of casualties aboard ships, vehicles and aircraft.
Define MEDEVAC
Refers to military patient movement using predesignated tactical or logistic aircraft and water crafts
What is the only service that has dedicated air MEDEVAC assets?
Army
What does AE refer to?
USAF system providing time sensitive en route care to and between MTFs
Civil Reserve Air Fleet and contracted civilian carriers will not be used for what?
Airlift contaminated patients in the AE system
Who is the single point manager for patient movement?
USTRANSCOM
With exception of intratheatre patient movement
Who sets the theater patient movement policy for contingency planning?
Geographic Combatant Commander, GCC.
Who is responsible for patient movement in their theater?
Geographic Combatant Commanders, GCCs.
Who is the DOD single point manager for intertheater and US patient movement services?
USTRANSCOM.
What is responsible for patient movement in the US and worldwide?
USTRANSCOM.
What is a joint activity responsible for patient movement management, validation, and coordination in their respective theaters?
Patent Movement Requirement Centers, PMRCs.
PMRCs normally exist at what level, to ensure visibility of joint assets for patient movement?
At the joint level.
What are the responsibilities of PMRCs?
- Validate patient movement requests;
- Maintains visibility of bed availability and medical capability within the theater;
- Regulates patients to the appropriate MTFs for continued care;
- Determines mode of transport.
What is a joint activity reporting directly to the Commander, USTRANSCOM, through the command surgeon?
Global Patient Movement Requirement Center, GPMRC.
Who is responsible for theater-wide patient movement and coordinates with theater MTFs to allocate the proper treatment assets required to support its role?
Theater Patient Movement Requirements Center.
Who coordinates with the TPMRC for intertheater patient movement?
PMRC
Who is responsible for contacting the PMRC with patient movement requirements and submitting patient movement data?
Patient admin director (clerk/officer) or the medical regulating officer.
Movement of patients between points WITHIN a GCCs area of responsibility is referred to as?
INTRAtheater.
Movement of patients between GCCs area of responsibility to points OUTSIDE the area of responsibility is known as?
INTERtheater
Who is responsible for developing INTRAtheater policies in coordination with service component representatives?
Joint Force Surgeon, JFS.
A key component in determining the casualty stream is the?
Theater patient movement policy.
