AHS
How many AHS Medical Functions are there?
10
What are the 6 AHS principles?
C3FMP
ControlConformity
Continuity
Flexibility
Mobility
Proximity
AHS Principles: Mobility
Ensure that AHS assets remain in supporting distance to support maneuvering combat forces
Roles of Care: Role 2
- Medical Company BSMC/MCAS
- Everything a Role 1 can do plus:
—x-ray, labs, and dental
— prev med
— patient hold
— advanced trauma management
— medlog
— medevac
Theater evac policy establishes the number of days of non-effectiveness that pts can be in theater for.
What are the three sections of AHS medical functions?
1. Medical Command and Control
2. Force health protection
3. Health services support
AHS Principles: Control
Required to ensure that scarce AHS resources are efficiently employed and support the tactical and strategic plan
AHS Principles: Proximity
AHS support assets are placed within supporting distance of the maneuver forces which they are supporting but not going close enough to impede on-going operations
Roles of Care: Role 3
- Combat support hospital
—everything a role 1/2 can do plus:
- Resuscitation, initial wound surgery, and post-op treatment
- Hospitalization
- Medical Regulating
- Clinical services- Pharmacy
Who establishes theater evac policy?
Established by the Secretary of Defense, with advice of the JSC, and recommendation by the combatant commander
What are the four sections under health services support
1. Medical treatment
2. Hospitalization
3. Medevac
4. MedlogAHS Principles: Conformity
Conform with the tactical plan and is the most basic element for effectively providing AHS support
How many roles of care are there?
4 Roles of care
Roles of Care: Role 4
- Definitive Care
— Everything Roles 1/2/3 plus:
-Full spectrum of definitive medical care
- CONUS or OCONUS safe havens
Special considerations of theater evac policy
Patients who qualify for evac under the theater evac policy:
- may not be held in theater the whole time
- pts not expected to RTD in time will be treated, stabilized, and then evac’d out of theater as soon as medically possible
What are the 5 sections under force health protection?
1. Combat and operational stress control (COSC)
2. Dental
3. Vet Services
4. Preventative Med
5. Labs
AHS Principles: Continuity
Continuity in care and treatment is achieved by moving the patient through progressive, phased roles of care, extending from POI to CONUS-support bases.
What are the 4 roles of care?
- Role 1
—BN Aid Station and below
- Role 2
— Medical Company BSMC/MCAS
- Role 3
— Combat support hospital
- Role 4— Definitive Care
What is Medical Regulating
The management system designed to coordinate the movement of patients from POI through successive roles
How many AHS principles are there?
6
AHS Principles: Flexibility
Being prepared to and empowered to shift resources to meet changing requirements
Roles of Care: Role 1
- Immediate life saving measures
- Self-aid, buddy aid, CLS
- EMT/ATM
- Medic, physician, and PA
- MedevacWhat does medical regulating do?
- Identifies pt evac, locating available beds, locating specialty care needs, coordinates transportation for movement
- careful control of pt evac to appropriate hospitals is necessary:
— effects an even distribution of cases
— ensures adequate beds available for current and projected pts
— routes pts requiring special treatment to appropriate MTFs