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Joint Medical Evacuation (2782 words) |
 | The second critical juncture in the medical evacuation process occurs after battlefield ground or air evacuation and treatment and is the follow-on evacuation, when Army medics transfer casualties to the Air Force for movement to the corps rear area or the communications zone. |
| This follow-on evacuation is for casualties who cannot be returned to duty within 48 hours in light divisions or 72 hours in heavy divisions, or whose medical needs exceed the theater evacuation policy or the capabilities of hospitals within the theater of operations. |
| This is what distinguishes patient evacuation from the movement of other precious commodities on the battlefield—trained medical personnel who provide full-time supervision and are prepared to provide medical intervention to ensure the survival of injured soldiers. |
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| Medical air evacuation units, either fixed or rotary wing, should be assigned to the field army, to permit full exploitation of their capabilities and to facilitate shifting of evacuation support to meet actual requirements. |
| With adequate medical control of forward aeromedical evacuation, the individual casualty is no longer doomed to evacuation to that particular hospital which happens to be in support of his unit. |
| The mobility of forward medical facilities is improved by the existence of a means for rapid atraumatic evacuation of large numbers of patients, permitting such units to displace without leaving large holding detachments. |
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