As a medic working at a mass casualty incident:
- follow the following organizational hierarchy:
- MERT officer
- SF medic or platoon medic
- MERT technician
- MERT assistant or squad medic
- Combat medic
- Combat life saver
- execute the tasks given by those above in the hierarchy
- give tasks to those below in the hierarchy
Old text:
MERT Officer>SF Medic or Platoon Medic>MERT Technician>Squad Medic/MERT Assistant>Combat Medic>CLS
In any instance where there are active casualties the senior medic on scene should be coordinating medical activities. This is particularly important for CCP’s as often it is a lack of coordination which results in longer down time for both casualties and the wider units they belong to.
Therefore the following hierarchy exists, broadly following the associated tiers for a given role:
In an instance where multiple medical personnel on the same tier are present (eg. a combat medic and a MERT assistant) whomever was initially coordinating the area eg. arrived first continues to do so.
