Fmf 111.11 Discuss The Following Medevac Categories Of Precedence And The Criteria Used To Determine Their Assignment

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Casualties needing air MEDEVAC will be given appropriate degrees of precedence so that, if aircraft space is limited, more urgent patients are evacuated before those whose conditions are less serious.

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WHY THERE NEEDS TO BE A DETERMINATION OF THE PRECEDENCE OF THE CASUALTY.

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Assigned to emergency cases that should be evacuated as soon as possible and within a maximum of 2 hours in order to save life, limb, or eyesight, to prevent complications of serious illness, or to avoid permanent disability.

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Priority 1 - Urgent.

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Assigned to patients who must receive far forward surgical intervention to save life and to stabilize them for further evacuation

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Priority 1A - Urgent-Surgical.

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. Assigned to sick and wounded personnel requiring prompt medical care. This precedence is used when the individual should be evacuated within 4 hours or his medical condition could deteriorate to such a degree that he will become an URGENT precedence, or whose requirements for special treatment are not available locally, or who will suffer unnecessary pain or disability.

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Priority 2 - Priority

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Assigned to sick and wounded personnel requiring evacuation but whose condition is not expected to deteriorate significantly. The sick and wounded in this category should be evacuated within 24 hours.

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Priority 3 - Routine

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Assigned to patients for whom evacuation by medical vehicle is a matter of medical convenience rather than necessity

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Priority 4 - Convenience.