| rdfs:comment
| - The Battalion Aid Station is a medical section within a battalion's support company in the military of the United States, specifically, the Army and Marine Corps. As such, it is the forwardmost medically staffed treatment location. During peacetime, it is led by a Medical Operations Officer, a First Lieutenant in the Army Medical Service Corps or a Lieutenant from the Navy Medical Corps. During combat, a commissioned medical doctor with the Army Medical Corps may assume leadership of the platoon and direct medical operations. However, in the Army, the Medical Service Officer normally retains control of training, planning, and administration of the platoon while the doctor in charge directs medical care. The primary mission of the Battalion Aid Station is to collect the sick and wounded fro
- A battalion aid station is a temporary medical facility set up within an battalion for the immediate treatment of sick or wounded troops. In the U.S. Army, a battalion aid station is an Echelon I facility along the chain of casualty evacuation, in other words, it would be the first medical facility a wounded soldier would be brought to for treatment. As such, the aid station would usually be only several hundred yards behind the front, set up under tents or in a building of some kind. It would be within the range of enemy artillery or snipers, and would move back and forth with the fighting troops.
|
| abstract
| - A battalion aid station is a temporary medical facility set up within an battalion for the immediate treatment of sick or wounded troops. In the U.S. Army, a battalion aid station is an Echelon I facility along the chain of casualty evacuation, in other words, it would be the first medical facility a wounded soldier would be brought to for treatment. As such, the aid station would usually be only several hundred yards behind the front, set up under tents or in a building of some kind. It would be within the range of enemy artillery or snipers, and would move back and forth with the fighting troops. A wounded soldier would first be treated at the point of injury by himself, his buddies or by the company aidmen (each company of troops had three or four). Field dressings and sulfa powder would be applied and sulfa tablets taken if possible--every soldier carried a quantity of these. The wounded soldier would then be taken by foot, or by litter bearers if he couldn't walk, to a battalion aid station. A battalion aid station was usually headed by the battalion surgeon (a doctor of the rank of captain) and assisted by a lieutenant from the Medical Service Corps (an administrator who also has first aid training). There would also be 6-8 aidmen/corpsmen. The term battalion surgeon is traditional--typically the doctor in a battalion aid station would be a generalist without specific surgical training. His role was as a general practitioner in contrast to the specialist surgeons of a MASH. A battalion aid station handled sick call for the unit and gave immediate first aid to wounded. Bandages would be adjusted, splints applied, morphine and plasma administered. Those needing further treatment would be sent on to Echelon II facilities--a divisional clearing station or a MASH. As such, the role of a battalion aid station was to stabilize and evacuate casualties rather than provide detailed treatment.
- The Battalion Aid Station is a medical section within a battalion's support company in the military of the United States, specifically, the Army and Marine Corps. As such, it is the forwardmost medically staffed treatment location. During peacetime, it is led by a Medical Operations Officer, a First Lieutenant in the Army Medical Service Corps or a Lieutenant from the Navy Medical Corps. During combat, a commissioned medical doctor with the Army Medical Corps may assume leadership of the platoon and direct medical operations. However, in the Army, the Medical Service Officer normally retains control of training, planning, and administration of the platoon while the doctor in charge directs medical care. The primary mission of the Battalion Aid Station is to collect the sick and wounded from the battalion and stabilize the patients' condition. The Battalion Aid Station belongs to, and is an organic component of, the unit it supports. It may be split into two functional units for up to 24 hours, the Main Aid Station consisting of the medical doctor and three 68W combat medics or 8404 corpsmen and a Forward Aid Station consisting of the Physician Assistant and three more 68Ws or corpsmen. This allows the section to support more than one unit or care as the unit advances or withdraws. According to the Geneva Convention, military medical facilities, equipment and personnel are non-combatants and may not be attacked as long as they remain in a non combatant role. Medical personnel are allowed weapons for the purpose of self- and patient-defense.
|
![[RDF Data]](/fct/images/sw-rdf-blue.png)