text: Appendix C
  Table C-3. Coordinations between surgeon/surgeon section and staff elements (continued)
  Coordinating Staff Supported Surgeon/Surgeon Section Responsibilities
  As part of a division staff, establishes a division liaison with the MTFs
  MTF Liaison through which sick, injured, or wounded Soldiers move as they are
  evacuated outside the division AO.
  Coordinates with local authorities concerning environmental and health
  Host nation local authorities
  concerns.
  Works with civil affairs staff and other unified action partners to obtain up-
  Unified action partners
  to-date medical intelligence for a projected area of operations.
  LEGEND:
  AHS – Army Health System DS – Direct Support MEDCOP – Medical Common
  Operating Picture
  AO – Area of Operations FHP – Force Health Protection MEDEVAC – Medical Evacuation
  ATP – Army Technique Publication HQ – Headquarters MEDLOG – Medical Logistics
  CBRN – Chemical, Biological, HSS – Health Service Support MTF – Medical Treatment Facility
  Radiological, Nuclear
  COSC - Combat and Operational MEDBDE – Medical Brigade SPT – Support
  Stress Control
  DNBI – Disease Nonbattle Injury MEDCOM – Medical Command
  * Synchronizes AOR medical resources to ensure effective and consistent treatment of wounded,
  injured, or sick personnel as to return to full duty or evacuate from the AOR.
  * Provides staff oversight for all ten AHS medical functions.
  * Coordinates AHS support (including, but not limited to, operational public health,
  inpatient/outpatient care, ancillary support, medical logistics, patient evacuation, hospitalization,
  dental support, return to duty, and veterinary services) in preparing and sustaining theater forces.
  * Coordinates with the staff judge advocate and chain of command to determine eligibility for
  medical care in an MTF.
  * Determines the policy for the requisition, procurement, storage, maintenance, distribution
  management, and documentation of Class VIII material, blood and blood products, and special
  designation of a TLAMM and the assignment of missions for the single integrated MEDLOG
  manager (SIMLM)
  * Recommends changes to the theater evacuation policy and provides input and personnel to the
  theater patient movement requirements center, as required.
  * Recommends theater policy for medically evacuating contaminated patients.
  SURGEON MEDICAL OPERATIONS ELEMENT
  C-9. Specific functions of the surgeon medical operations element include, but are not limited to:
  * Coordinates patient evacuation from theater.
  * Manages movement of patients within and from theater.
  * Manages flow of casualties within the AOR.
  * Monitors the flow of patients to MTFs within the combatant command AOR or for inter-theater
  evacuation.
  * Communicates with the theater patient movement requirements center and the global patient
  movement requirement center.
  * Develops mass casualty plans and determines the medical workload requirements based upon the
  casualty estimate.
  * Recommends medical evacuation policies and procedures, changes to the theater evacuation
  policy, and provides input to the theater patient movement requirements center.
  * Monitors medical regulating and patient tracking operations.