text: Medical Support During Multinational Operations
  MEDICAL SUPPORT PLANNING CONSIDERATIONS
  6-19. Commanders and staffs answer the following medical support planning considerations questions with
  respect to medical support planning:
  • Does the health service support plan conform to the operation and administrative plans?
  • Is the allocation of medical evacuation capabilities synchronized with the placement of medical
  treatment facilities to sustain proximity throughout the continuum of care?
  • Does the support plan include flexibility for unseen contingencies (such as weapons of mass
  destruction)?
  • Are medical support assets sufficiently mobile to provide support to the force?
  • Have the following medical protection issues been addressed:
  ▪ Health threat assessment.
  ▪ Medical countermeasures and vaccination.
  ▪ Health surveillance system.
  • Who is eligible for treatment?
  • Are mass casualty plans established and synchronized?
  • When will limited resource triage be initiated?
  • How will casualty evacuation be coordinated (dedicated, designated, and platform of opportunity)?
  • How will casualty numbers be reported and from whom?
  • How will patients be accounted for during unregulated movement?
  • Are there sufficient medical evacuation assets?
  • Does the theater evacuation policy support available hospitalization, intratheater, and intertheater
  medical evacuation capabilities?
  • What medical support reports will be available to the multinational force commander?
  • What are the arrangements for force health protection measures?
  • Are there adequate dental services available?
  • What provisions exist for preventing, identifying, and managing combat and operational stress
  reactions?
  • How will multinational forces obtain Class VIII supplies?
  • How will medical equipment be repaired?
  • What is the blood supply system?
  • How are patient movement items managed?
  • Does the support plan include provision of, or access to, limited critical medical equipment such as
  magnetic resonance imagery?
  • Does the support plan identify any unusual soldier physical screening standards necessary for this
  operation?
  • What are the medical support requirements for detainee operations and facilities?