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

Urgent-Surg
Priority
Routine
Convenience