Volume 3 Unit 2 Part 1

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What are the four types of Aeromedical Evacuation (AE)?

Forward, theater, strategic, domestic (correct)

Aeromedical staging facility

C–130 Hercules, C–17 Globemaster, C–21 and the KC–135 Stratotanker

Expeditionary Medical Support

What provides support and accommodations for patients required to remain at installations while awaiting AE?

Mobile aeromedical staging facility

Theater Patient Movement Requirement Center –Pacific

Aeromedical staging facility (correct)

Clinical validation, limited patient in transit visibility, and evacuation requirements planning for intertheater patient movement and intratheater patient movement for CONUS

What type of facility is generally located near active flight lines?

Mobile aeromedical staging facility (correct)

TRAC2ES

Theater Patient Movement Requirement Center

C–130 Hercules, C–17 Globemaster, C–21 and the KC–135 Stratotanker

What is the primary aircraft used for supporting intratheater AE?

C–130 Hercules, C–17 Globemaster, C–21 and the KC–135 Stratotanker Signup and view all the answers

What allows the AF to deploy capabilities from small teams that can provide highly skilled medical care for a limited number of casualties?

Expeditionary Medical Support Signup and view all the answers

What system is responsible for combining transportation, logistics and clinical decision support elements into a seamless patient movement information management system, which is capable of visualizing, assessing and prioritizing patient movement requirements?

TRAC2ES Signup and view all the answers

Who is responsible for managing patient movement within their respective area of responsibility?

Theater Patient Movement Requirement Center Signup and view all the answers

What regulating services are provided by Theater Patient Movement Requirements Centers-Americas (TPMRC-A)?

Clinical validation, limited patient in transit visibility, and evacuation requirements planning for intertheater patient movement and intratheater patient movement for CONUS. Signup and view all the answers

What Patient Movement Requirements Center (PMRC) is located in Joint Base Hickam Pearl Harbor?

Theater Patient Movement Requirement Center –Pacific Signup and view all the answers

What PMRC is located at Ramstein AB, Germany?

Theater Patient Movement Requirement Center –Europe Signup and view all the answers

What serves as the patient movement decision authority in a specific Joint Task Force (JTF) commander's Area of Responsibility (AOR)?

Deployable Joint Patient Movement Requirement Center Signup and view all the answers

What department is responsible for the support of medical evacuation?

Army Medical Department Signup and view all the answers

Define the medical evacuation ground and air ambulance platform

Platforms especially for the medical evacuation mission with allocated medical equipment specifically designed for the purpose of en route care and by trained medical personnel Signup and view all the answers

What are the most commonly used rotary-wing aircraft used for patient movement in battle zones?

UH–60 Blackhawk, UH–60A Blackhawk, UH–1H/V Iroquois, and the CH–47 Chinook Signup and view all the answers

What is the medical evacuation priority if a patient needs to be moved within four hours?

Priority II – Priority Signup and view all the answers

What is the medical evacuation priority if a patient needs to be moved within 24 hours?

Priority III – Routine Signup and view all the answers

What is the overriding factor in determining a patient’s precedence for medical evacuation?

The patient’s medical condition Signup and view all the answers

How are medical evacuation requests often sent?

They are often sent from the point of injury, through intermediaries, such as higher headquarters, who then transmit the request up to the nearest medical evacuation unit. Signup and view all the answers

What is Theater Medical Information Program-Joint?

It is a system that records the patient's medical evaluations while down range Signup and view all the answers

What system takes clinical information and other data and makes it available to other health professional worldwide?

Theater Medical Data Store Signup and view all the answers

What are some capabilities of Theater Medical Information Program-Joint (TMIP-J)

Inpatient care, outpatient care, blood status, medical surveillance, tracking medical supplies, occupational and environmental health and tracking patients through the aerovac system Signup and view all the answers

Who determines the appropriate classification of a patient for movement within the Aeromedical Evacuation (AE) system?

Attending Physician Signup and view all the answers

How many Aeromedical Evacuation (AE) classification codes may be used for AE transportation?

Six Signup and view all the answers

What is the classification 1B?

Psychiatric litter patients of intermediate severity; patients requiring tranquilizing medication or sedation, not normally requiring the use of restraining apparatus; restraining apparatus must be sent with the patient for potential use. Signup and view all the answers

What class is used for a recovered patient returning to home station?

Class 3B Signup and view all the answers

What is classification 5C?

Psychiatric outpatient, going for treatment or evaluation Signup and view all the answers

What are the three aeromedical evacuation (AE) movement precedents?

Urgent, Priority, and routine Signup and view all the answers

Which precedence should be utilized for a patient who needs AE movement within 24 hours?

Priority Signup and view all the answers

How long are routine patients capable of waiting for evacuation?

72 hours Signup and view all the answers