Medevac Evacuation
MEDEVAC EVACUATION
1. What is the primary function of the ambulance team?
Ground ambulance teams provide medical evacuation from the POI to supporting MTFs while ensuring the continuity of care en route.
The primary goal of MEDEVAC is to minimize mortality (the Died of Wounds (DOW) percentage) by rapidly and efficiently moving the sick and wounded to a medical treatment facility
2. What is the primary function of preventive medicine section?
The PVNTMED section assigned to medical companies has a primary responsibility for supervising the unit’s
PVNTMED program as described in AR 40-5.
The section ensures measures are implemented to protect personnel against food, water, and arthropod borne diseases, as well as environmental injuries.
Provides advice and consultation in the area of health threat assessment, FHP, environmental sanitation, epidemiology, sanitary engineering, and pest management.
Assists the higher headquarters in determining requirements for medical intelligence assessments, particularly with respect to CBRN and disease prevalence. Coordinates with supporting veterinary teams for conducting and implementing food safety and quality assurance surveillance and assisting in food borne and zoonotic disease surveillance and control.
3. What are the means by which commanders express their visualization, commander’s intent, and decisions?
They focus on results the commander expects to achieve. This provides the basis for ensuring that medical evacuation operations are comprehensively planned, synchronized, responsive, and ensure a seamless continuum of care.
4. What are medical evacuation planning considerations?
Medical evacuation planning considerations, although essentially the same at all levels of command, may entail a broader scope, complexity, and detail at the higher levels of command due to the coordination and synchronization requirements which
1. What is the primary function of the ambulance team?
Ground ambulance teams provide medical evacuation from the POI to supporting MTFs while ensuring the continuity of care en route.
The primary goal of MEDEVAC is to minimize mortality (the Died of Wounds (DOW) percentage) by rapidly and efficiently moving the sick and wounded to a medical treatment facility
2. What is the primary function of preventive medicine section?
The PVNTMED section assigned to medical companies has a primary responsibility for supervising the unit’s
PVNTMED program as described in AR 40-5.
The section ensures measures are implemented to protect personnel against food, water, and arthropod borne diseases, as well as environmental injuries.
Provides advice and consultation in the area of health threat assessment, FHP, environmental sanitation, epidemiology, sanitary engineering, and pest management.
Assists the higher headquarters in determining requirements for medical intelligence assessments, particularly with respect to CBRN and disease prevalence. Coordinates with supporting veterinary teams for conducting and implementing food safety and quality assurance surveillance and assisting in food borne and zoonotic disease surveillance and control.
3. What are the means by which commanders express their visualization, commander’s intent, and decisions?
They focus on results the commander expects to achieve. This provides the basis for ensuring that medical evacuation operations are comprehensively planned, synchronized, responsive, and ensure a seamless continuum of care.
4. What are medical evacuation planning considerations?
Medical evacuation planning considerations, although essentially the same at all levels of command, may entail a broader scope, complexity, and detail at the higher levels of command due to the coordination and synchronization requirements which