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Habif
Essentials of Musculoskeletal Care
Glossary
People
PROFIS
SMO = Senior Medical Officer
SPEARR = Small portable expeditionary aeromedical rapid response
EMEDS = Expeditionary medical
CCATT = Critical care aeromedical transport team
FST = Forward surgical team
FRSS = Forward Resuscitative Surgical System
FERSS = Forward Emergency & Resuscitative Surgical System
IT
GEMS = Global Expeditionary Medical System
CITA = Immunization Tracking Appliance
SAMS = Shipboard Automated Medical System
Other Terms
AAR = After action report
AFMIC = Armed Forces Medical Intelligence Center
DNBI = Disease and non-battle injury
CASEVAC = Casualty evacuation, usually refers to evacuation of casualties from combat, pre-surgery
MEDEVAC = Medical evacuation, usually refers to air ambulance flights by the Army
AE = Aeromedical evacuation, usually refers to patient movement out of theater
GPMRC = Global Patient Movement Regulating Center
TPMRC = Theater Patient Movement Regulating Center
CSAR = Combat search and rescue
PH = Public health, in the AF, covers communicable disease, sanitation, epidemiology, education, record screening
BEE = Bioenvironmental engineer(ing), in the AF, covers industrial shop inspections and environmental sampling
C4 = Combat Casualty Care Course
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