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==US Military Emergency Medicine Care Levels==
{| class="wikitable"
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Echelons of Care'''
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Military Hierarchy'''
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Personnel/Facility'''
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Type of Care'''
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Navy/Marine Corps Hierarchy'''
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Army Hierarchy'''
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Rough Civilian Equivalents'''
|-
| I||Unit||Self/Buddy Aid ||First aid ||Self/Buddy Aid||Self/Buddy Aid||Community first aid
|-
| ||||Combat Lifesaver ||First aid, beginning of emergency treatment||Combat Lifesaver (CLS)||Combat Lifesaver||First responders (police, fire)
|-
| ||||Combat medic ||Emergency medical treatment||Hospital Corpsman (HM)||Combat Medic (68W)||EMT-basic
|-
| ||||Battalion aid station||Advanced trauma and medical management||Battalion Aid Station (BAS); Ship’s complement medical staff||Treatment squad, BAS, SOF medic (18D)||Paramedic
|-
| II||Division||Medical company (clearing station) ||Initial resuscitation||Medical Battalion; Casualty Receiving & Treatment Ships (CRTS);Shock Trauma Platoon (STP); Ship’s complement medical staff||Medical battalions/companies, Casualty Evacuation (CASEVAC/Dustoff)||Level IV trauma center
|-
| ||||Field surgical support group||Initial resuscitation||Forward Resuscitative Surgery System (FRSS) ||Forward Surgical Team (FST), Special Operations Resuscitation Team (SORT), Joint Medical Augmentation Unit (JMAU); future - Forward Resuscitation and Surgical Team (FRST)||Level III trauma center
|-
| III||Corps||Combat support hospital, fleet hospitals||Resuscitative surgery and medical care||Fleet hospital; Hospital ships||Field hospital levels - Combat Support Hospital (CSH); Historical - Evacuation Hospital (EVAC) and Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH)||Level II trauma center
|-
| IV||Echelons above corps||Combat support hospital, host nation hospitals, hospital ships||Definitive care||Overseas medical treatment facilities||General hospital, Communications Zone Hospital (COMMZ)||Level I trauma center
|-
| V||Out of theater (continental US)||Fixed medical facilities||Restorative and rehabilitative care||CONUS military/civilian hospitals||CONUS military/civilian hospitals or OCONUS military hospitals||Tertiary and quaternary hospitals
|}

==Navy/Marine Corps Echelons of Care==
===Echelon I===
*Self-Aid/Buddy Aid
*Combat Lifesaver (CLS)
**Advanced first aid training provided to Marines
*Hospital Corpsman (HM)
**HMs can be forward deployed with Marine platoons and companies to provide EMS basic and paramedic level of care
*Battalion Aid Station (BAS)  
**Staffed with corpsmen, Independent Duty Corpsman (IDC), and Battalio Surgeon
*Ship’s Complement Medical Staff
**Varies in staff depending on size of ship

===Echelon II===
*Ship’s Complement Medical Staff
**Varies in staff depending on size of ship
*Medical Battalion
**Provides surgical care for the MEF
**Provides stabilizing surgical procedures
**Capable of holding patients up to 72 hours
*Casualty Receiving & Treatment Ships (CRTS)
**Part of an Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG)
**Provides additional medical capabilities for receiving a mass casualty of up to 50 casualties
*Shock Trauma Platoon (STP)
**Small forward unit with one physician supporting the MEF specializing in patient stabilization and CASEVAC
**No surgical capability
*Forward Resuscitation Surgical Suite (FRSS)
**This surgical suite is pushed as far forward to be close to the combat area to allow surgical treatment of casualties within the “golden hour” after injury
**Staffed with 8 to 10 personnel (two surgeons, one critical care nurse, one anesthesiologist, and four to six corpsmen)
**Enough space for one operating room and one pre- and post-operative care room
**Equipped with cutting-edge surgical gear and takes less than one hour to set up or break down

===Echelon III===
*Fleet Hospitals
**Deployable ground asset but located away from enemy threat providing up to 500 hospital beds, 80 ICU beds, and 6 OR’s
*Hospital Ships
**USNS Mercy and USNS Comfort
**Deployable medical assets providing up to 1,000 beds, 100 ICU beds, and 12 OR’s

===Echelon IV===
*Overseas Medical Treatment Facilities
**Offers surgical capability found in echelon III, along with further definitive therapy for those patients in the recovery phase

===Echelon V===
*CONUS Military/Civilan Hospitals
**Provide full convalescent, restorative, and rehabilitative care to all patients returned to the Continental United States (CONUS).

[[File:echelons of care.PNG|400px]]

==See Also==
*[[Tactical combat casualty care]]
*[[Emergency medical services (EMS)]]

==References==
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[[Category:EMS]]
[[Category:Military]]