MEDICAL OPERATIONS DURING OPERATION DESERT STORM 9 NOV 91

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Subject: MEDICAL OPERATIONS DURING OPERATION DESERT STORM 9 NOV 91       

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                                              M:EDICAL OPERATIONS



                     Although casualty numbers did not stress the medical support system, some
                 important gaps in the planning process became apparent as MTFs operated in
                 theater. This section examines the following key features of this system: regulating
                 and evacuation, logistics support, the chemical threat, and theater medical care.

                 REGULATING AND EVACUATION


                     The medical regulating system moves casualties through successive echelons of
                 mm to the MTF that can provide the required treatment for the patient. In
                 mid August, CINCCENT announced the establishment of the JMRO and the theater
                 aeromedical evacuation control center (AECC) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The J'AIRO
                 was responsible for regulating patients within theater between echelon III facilities
                 and from echelorLM facilities within theater to echelon IV facilities outside CONUS.
                 The AECC exercised overall control and direction of the fixed-wing aeromedical
                 evacuation assets in theater.


                     To fillf;ll its mission, the JMRO required all component hospital beds in
                 Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and host-nation facilities to report patient movements and
                 changes in bed availability. Each task force commander was responsible for estab-
                 lishing a medical regulating system under the supervision of a medical regulating
                 control officer (MRCO) to coordinate the flow of casualties to MTFs used by the task
                 force and to notify the JMRO of requirements for medical regulating to other MTFS.

                     Under the regulating system established for Desert Shield/Storm, the JMRO
                 @t directed patients leaving the theater to hospitals in Europe. The CENTCOM
RO coordinated the movement of patients to Europe with the EUCOM JMRO
                 located in Rhein Main, Germany. Patients unable to return to duty within the
                 EUCOM evacuation policy were hospitalized in Europe and stabilized, if necessary,
                 and assigned to a CONUS hospital bed by the Armed Services Medical Regulating
                 Office (ASMRO). ASLARO regulated casualties to a specific CONUS facility depend-
                 ing on specialty bed availability, aircraft availability, and the service affiliation of
                 the patient.

                     The Navy established a medical regulating unit in Bahrain that eventually
                 became sub-area II JMRO, with responsibility for medical regulating for eas@
                 Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. (Sub-area I JMRO was established in King @d Mh-
                 tary City.) All Navy echelon III medical facilities used the sub-area II JMRO for




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