text: Veterinary Services
  * Perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
  ANIMAL CARE SPECIALIST
  6-11. Animal care specialists are organic to Army engineer, Ranger, USN, and Medical Detachment
  (Veterinary Service Support) units. The animal care specialist supervises or provides the care, management,
  treatment, and sanitary conditions for animals, with a primary responsibility for the prevention and control
  of zoonotic diseases and comprehensive care for government-owned animals.
  6-12. Animal Care Specialists can perform the same tasks as the Animal Handler plus the following
  capabilities:
  * Calculating doses and administering oral and topical medications as directed by the veterinarian
  or established protocol approved by a veterinarian.
  * Maintaining sanitary conditions for all components of the veterinary facility.
  * Cleaning, debriding, and suturing superficial wounds.
  * Collecting, preserving, and preparing postmortem specimens (including rabies suspect specimens)
  for shipment and evaluation at the appropriate laboratory.
  * Coordinating and stabilizing MWDs, equids, and marine mammals for evacuation to veterinary
  field unit or treatment facility.
  * Performing serial monitoring of vital signs and reporting patient’s clinical status to the
  veterinarian.
  * Collecting laboratory specimens (blood, urine, feces, skin scraping) and performing routine
  diagnostics (chemistry, complete blood count, urinalysis); handling and shipping of samples to
  diagnostic laboratories.
  * Conducting minor sick call or emergency procedures under the indirect supervision of a
  veterinarian (such as teleconsultation or preauthorized protocol). Treatment may include restoring
  the airway by invasive procedures; use of intravenous fluids and medications; and applying splints,
  bandages, and tourniquets.
  * Preventing and managing DNBI (such as heat/cold injuries, gastric dilatation volvulus [bloat],
  arthropod/reptile bites/stings, vomiting/diarrhea, and so forth).
  * Performing humane euthanasia when instructed by veterinarian.
  * Performing advanced lifesaving measures to include triage, tracheotomy, burn and poison
  management, venous cutdown, insertion of stomach tubes, gastric trocharization, establishing and
  maintaining the airway, controlling hemorrhage, performing first aid for hypovolemic shock, and
  splinting or immobilizing fractures.
  * Inducing and maintaining general anesthesia (under the supervision of a veterinarian), operating
  mechanical ventilators, and monitoring anesthetized patient status.
  * Taking radiographs and reviewing images for proper positioning.
  * Initiating and maintaining patient medical records.
  6-13. Veterinary Role 1 care is provided by the animal care handler, animal care specialist, and veterinarian
  assigned individually to various United States Army, United States Air Force, United States Marine Corps,
  or United States Navy field units or Veterinary Service Support Teams. Either the animal care specialist or
  veterinarian will respond to the emergency call of a MWD, equid, or USN marine mammal handler.
  Depending on the type of emergency, the animal care specialist or veterinarian will evaluate the traumatized
  or ill animal to provide stabilization with basic first aid equipment or medications so that the patient can
  withstand further evacuation to and treatment by either a forward-deployed veterinary Role 2 Veterinary
  Service Support Team, veterinary Role 3 Veterinary Medical and Surgical Team, or veterinary Role 4 care
  at an Army veterinary hospital. An animal handler can be instructed to perform basic emergency aid
  procedures and prepare the animal for transport/evacuation to a higher role of veterinary medical care in the
  event the animal care specialist or veterinarian cannot provide veterinary Role 1 care at the POI/illness.