| Echelons of Care
|
Military Hierarchy
|
Personnel/Facility
|
Type of Care
|
Navy/Marine Corps Hierarchy
|
Army Hierarchy
|
Rough Civilian Equivalents
|
| I |
Unit |
Self/Buddy Aid |
First aid |
Self/Buddy Aid |
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Community first aid
|
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Combat Lifesaver |
First aid, beginning of emergency treatment |
Combat Lifesaver (CLS) |
|
First responders (police, fire)
|
|
|
Combat medic |
Emergency medical treatment |
Hospital Corpsman (HM) |
|
EMT-basic
|
|
|
Battalion aid station |
Advanced trauma and medical management |
Battalion Aid Station (BAS); Ship’s complement medical staff |
|
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 |
|
Level IV trauma center
|
|
|
Field surgical support group |
Initial resuscitation |
Forward Resuscitative Surgery System (FRSS) |
|
Level III trauma center
|
| III |
Corps |
Combat support hospital, fleet hospitals |
Resuscitative surgery and medical care |
Fleet hospital; Hospital ships |
|
Level II trauma center
|
| IV |
Echelons above corps |
Combat support hospital, host nation hospitals, hospital ships |
Definitive care |
Overseas medical treatment facilities |
|
Level I trauma center
|
| V |
Out of theater (continental US) |
Fixed medical facilities |
Restorative and rehabilitative care |
CONUS military/civilian hospitals |
|
Tertiary and quaternary hospitals
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