How will patients be evacuated, received, and transported to the participating hospitals?
At the disaster site, patients will be stabilized by DMATs or Specialty Teams for transport. In most cases, patients will be evacuated by the DoD aeromedical evacuation system. Patients will be regulated to FCC areas. At the airport of the NDMS reception area, patients will be met by a local medical team that will sort, assess, and match those patients to participating hospitals, according to procedures developed by local authorities and the local area’s NDMS Federal Coordinating Center. Patients will be transported to participating hospitals using locally organized ground and air transport.
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