field hospitals
Temporary military infirmaries
Field hospitals are temporary medical facilities set up near combat zones or disaster sites to treat casualties before they can be transported to permanent hospitals.
They're designed to be mobile and quickly assembled: The army established a field hospital just behind the front lines.
The term extends to any improvised medical facility during emergencies: Convention centers were converted to field hospitals during the pandemic.
Emergency air transport injured
- combat medicsArmed forces medical staff
- casualtiesThose killed or wounded
- frontlineCombat's forward position
- triage tentTemporary patient sorting facility
surgical unit · wounded soldiers · stretcher bearers · evacuation · army nurses · war wounded · military surgeons · combat casualties
Formal evaluation of worth
- prioritizationRanking by importance
- stabilizationProcess of becoming steady
- critical careTreatment for severe illness
- vital signsMeasurable life indicators
resuscitation · life-threatening · ambulatory · walking wounded · color coding · delayed treatment · expectant · mass casualty
Organized action during crises
- relief workersPeople providing emergency assistance
- humanitarian aidCrisis relief for sufferers
- earthquakeSeismic ground movement
- natural disasterCatastrophic environmental event
outbreak · epidemic · pandemic · mobile clinic · temporary shelter · Red Cross · aid station · crisis response
Temporary care shelter
- cotsSmall portable beds
- generatorsDevices converting motion to electricity
- supply depotFacility storing distributed goods
- sanitationCleanliness for public health
sterilization · surgical kits · stretchers · water purification · modular units · blood supply · supply chain · triage area
medevac
Emergency air transport injured
- combat medicsArmed forces medical staff
- casualtiesThose killed or wounded
- frontlineCombat's forward position
triage tent · surgical unit · wounded soldiers · stretcher bearers · evacuation · army nurses · war wounded · military surgeons · combat casualties · medical corps
assessment
Formal evaluation of worth
- prioritizationRanking by importance
- stabilizationProcess of becoming steady
- critical careTreatment for severe illness
vital signs · resuscitation · life-threatening · ambulatory · walking wounded · color coding · delayed treatment · expectant · mass casualty · medical screening
emergency response
Organized action during crises
- relief workersPeople providing emergency assistance
- humanitarian aidCrisis relief for sufferers
- earthquakeSeismic ground movement
natural disaster · outbreak · epidemic · pandemic · mobile clinic · temporary shelter · Red Cross · aid station · crisis response · flood relief
medical tent
Temporary care shelter
- cotsSmall portable beds
- generatorsDevices converting motion to electricity
- supply depotFacility storing distributed goods
sanitation · sterilization · surgical kits · stretchers · water purification · modular units · blood supply · supply chain · triage area · decontamination
- disaster responsedisaster relief, search and rescue, first responders, emergency preparedness, emergency shelter
- emergency medicalemergency room, ambulance, EMS, ER, EMT
- humanitarian aidaid, aid organizations, aid workers, disaster relief, aid agencies
- medical aidmedical aid, doctor, medical relief, surgeon, clinic
- military suppliesammunition, ammo, rifles, bombs, bandages
- relief aidemergency aid, relief supplies, disaster relief, relief workers, aid workers
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