Elements of a Successful Patient Handling & Movement Program: Why and How
NDMS Patient Movement
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NDMS Patient Movement
USNORTHCOMCommand Surgeon
Joint Regional Medical Plans & Operations
Lt Col Tony Voirin
USNORTHCOM JRMP – NW Branch
Federal Patient Movement Capabilities
• National Ambulance Contract– 300 Amb/3000 para-transit seats/life-flight
• Military Ground Ambulance – Humvee
• Military Helicopters – MEDEVAC/CASEVAC– National Guard and Active Duty
• Civilian Contract Airlines– Low acuity/Ambulatory/Chronic patients
• NDMS Fixed Wing Patient Evacuation
A public/private sector partnership
DHS DHHS DOD DVA
National Disaster Medical System
Major Components of theNDMS System
DHHS
DHS
VADefinitive
Care
DoD
MedicalResponse
PatientEvacuation
NDMS Patient Evacuation
• DoD has primary responsibility – Movement from point of origin to receiving Federal
Coordinating Center (FCC) Patient Reception Area (PRA)
– Primarily relies on air• AE = Aeromedical Evacuation
• System Components– Movement Requests– Staging – Regulating– Lift– Reception & Distribution– Tracking (HHS JPATs)
System Capability
• Patient Evacuation can begin 36 hrs from notice • System can move 500 patients per day (up to
20% critical) – Up to four Airfields
• Limited capability for patients – Suggest the following patients be evacuated
by other modes • High-acuity burn • NICU and PICU • Psychiatric (if requires medical supervision)
Reception Sites(FCC)
What we need to know
• How many patients over what period (approx)• What airfields (coordinated approval)• Rate of delivery to the Airfield • Acuity of Patients (higher Acuity, less
patients)– Litter/Amb – Space, number of patients/plane– Critical – CCATT and Equipment– Vented – CCATT, Equipment and O2
• How will Patient Movement Requests flow• Will need to know but make best guess
Other factors
• Notice vs No Notice– Hurricane vs Earthquake/CBRNE
• Catastrophic or Not (Potential or Just Bad)– 7.8 Earthquake/Nuke or Prestorm/Wildfire
• State Request Submitted or On Fence – Mission Assignment Driven Process
• Single or Multi-State Event
LOCAL HOSP
AE System Overview
LOCAL HOSP
LOCAL HOSP
Regional Hospital
Coordinator
State EOCJPMT (GPMRC)
GPMRC
AMC (TACC)
Mission Built
Crews Alerted
APOE/AMP
State/Local IC
MASF/AELT
PM
R
PMR
PMR
NDMS HOSP
PMR
Pts moved to APOE
and loaded
APOD/FCC
AmbulanceControl
Ambulances dispatched
to hospitals
NDMS HOSP AE
movement to APOD
Mission Specifics(MSN #, Times, Etc.)
NDMS HOSP
PT MAN
PMRPT MAN
CRE/CRT
JPRT/QRC
Situational
Awareness
NDMS DMAT/CCT
Challenges• Patient Movement Requests • Number of patients; over period of time (approximately) • FEMA Mission Assignment (MA) to DoD • Identification and allocation of space on Airfields • Rate of delivery to the Airfield(s)
– right patient – right airhead – right order/time
• Acuity of patients (higher acuity = less patients) – Litter/Ambulatory – space, number of patients/plane – Critical – CCATT, Equipment, O2 (20% max) – Vented – CCATT, Equipment, O2
• # Non-medical attendants (i.e. pediatric patients - 20% max)
Questions?