CASEVAC Categories
French word meaning "To Sort"
Triage
What is the first phase of TCCC?
Care Under Fire
What is the final phase of TCCC?
Tactical Evacuation Phase
Priority IV—CONVENIENCE
Priority IV—CONVENIENCE Patients for whom evacuation by medical vehicle is a matter of medical convenience rather than necessity. (Not used for AE.)
Water Boils at what temperature at sea level?
212F & 100C
Patients requiring prompt evacuation (within a maximum of four hours for MEDEVAC or within 24 hours for AE), to prevent the medical condition from deteriorating to an URGENT precedence, to prevent unnecessary pain or disability, or who require treatment not available locally.
Priority II—PRIORITY
What is Care Under Fire?
Combat life savers, pararescue, and other medical personnel and their units are under effective hostile fire and are very limited in the care they can provide. In essence, only those lifesaving interventions that must be performed immediately are undertaken during this phase.
What is the Tactical Evacuation Phase?
Casualties are being transported to an MTF by an aircraft or vehicle, and there is an opportunity to provide additional medical personnel and equipment to maintain the interventions already performed, to further increase the role of care rendered to the casualty, and to be prepared to deal with the potential for the patient’s condition to change during the evacuation.
Patients who do not require immediate medical attention and whose condition are not expected to deteriorate significantly.
They should be evacuated within 24 hours for MEDEVAC or 72 hours for AE.
Priority III—ROUTINE
Explain Iodine Tablets
Iodine water purification tablets are intended to disinfect water contained in small containers such as canteens or water jugs. The procedures for disinfecting small quantities of water with these tablets.
Priority IA—URGENT-SURGICAL
Patients requiring forward resuscitative care for life and limb saving measures, and to attain stabilization for further evacuation within a maximum one hour. (Not used for Aeromedical Evacuation.)
What is the second phase of TCCC?
Tactical Field Care
Tactical Evacuation includes what caterogories?
Casualty Evacuation (CASEVAC) and Medical Evacuation (MEDEVAC)
Patients requiring emergency, short notice evacuation (within a maximum of one hour for MEDEVAC or immediately for Aeromedical Evacuation) to save life, limb, or eyesight and to prevent serious complications of the injury, serious illness, or permanent disability.
Priority I-URGENT
Explain water purifying with iodine tablets in a CANTEEN.
Fill the canteen with the cleanest, clearest water available.
Add 2 iodine tablets to each 1-qt canteen full of water, or 4 tablets to 2-qt canteens.
Put the cap on the canteen.
Shake the canteen to dissolve the tablets.
Wait 5 min.
Loosen the cap slightly and tip the canteen over to allow leakage around the canteen threads.
Tighten the cap and wait an additional 25 min before drinking.
Which category requires further resuscitative care for life and limb saving withan a maximum of ONE hour?
Priority IA-URGENT-SURGICAL.
What is Tactical Care Phase?
Medical personnel and their casualties are no longer under effective hostile fire and can provide more extensive casualty care. In this phase, interventions directed at other life-threatening conditions as well as resuscitation and other measures to increase the comfort of the patient may be performed.
9 Line MEDEVAC request:
Provides a standardized message format that helps expedite the medical evacuation process.
The same format is used for both air and ground MEDEVAC requests.
Purpose of Evacuation PRECEDENCE
The process of patient categorization determines how quickly a patient will be evacuated within the patient movement system and has a significant impact on lift assets.
Patient movement priorities will be derived from situational factors and/or individual patient clinical conditions. Patient condition/status may be upgraded or downgraded at each succeeding role of care.
What considerations should be made when chooisng a waste disposal location?
Must be 50 feet from berthing areas
Must be 100 feet from nearest natural water source
Must be 100 yards from food service areas
List all the CASEVAC Categories
Priority I-URGENT
Priority IA- URGRENT SURGICAL
Priority II- PRIORITY
Priority III- ROUTINE
Priority IV- CONVENIENCE
Airway Management is generally best DEFERRED until what phase?
Tactical Field Care
Line 1: Location of Pickup Site
Line 2: Radio Frequency, Call Sign & Suffix
Line 3: Number of Patients by Precedence
Line 4: Special Equipment Require
Line 5: Number of Patients by Type
Line 6: Security of Pick-up Site
Line 7: Method of Marking Pick-up Site
Line 8: Patient Nationality & Status
Line 9: CBRN Containment (Wartime)/Terrain Description (Peacetime)
How many categories of CASEVAC are there?
5
Describe a STRADDLE TRENCH Latrine
1 foot wide
2 1/2 feet deep
4 feet long
Additional trenches to be at least 2 feet apart.
Used temporary bivouac sites for 1 to 3 days.
Serves 25 people and accommodates 2 people at one time.