Line 3: Patients by Precedence
Report on applicable information, and encrypt the brevity codes. If two or more
categories must be reported in the same request, insert the word "BREAK" between
each category.
A - URGENT is assigned to emergency cases that should be evacuated as soon as
possible and within a maximum of 2 hours in order to save life, limb, or eyesight;
to prevent complications of serious illness; or to avoid permanent disability.
B - URGENT-SURG is assigned to patients who must receive far forward surgical
intervention to save life and to stabilize them for further evacuation.
C - PRIORITY is assigned to sick and wounded personnel requiring prompt medical
care. This level of precedence is used when the individual should be evacuated
within 4 hours or his or her medical condition could deteriorate to such a degree
that he or she will become an urgent level of precedence. This level also is
used for individuals whose requirements for special treatment are not available
locally or who will suffer unnecessary pain or disability.
D - ROUTINE is assigned to sick and wounded personnel requiring evacuation but
whose condition is not expected to deteriorate significantly. The sick and wounded
in this category should be evacuated within 24 hours.
E - CONVENIENCE is assigned to patients for whom evacuation
by medical vehicle is a matter of medical convenience rather
than necessity.
Urgent-Surg
Priority
Routine
Convenience