4. REPORTS. (Describe types of reports required and frequency of reporting on HSS aspects of NBC/TIM events. Reports should provide, at a minimum, aspects of event and recommended preventive/protective actions needed to prevent or minimize casualties.)
[APPENDIX F]
EMPLOYMENT OF CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL COLLECTIVE PROTECTION SHELTER SYSTEMS BY MEDICAL UNITS
Section I. INTRODUCTION
F-1. General
To continue the HSS mission under CB conditions, MTFs must search out contamination free areas or employ CPS systems. Levels I and II MTFs may be able to locate contamination free areas; however, due to the mobility limitations of hospitals, they must always be prepared to operate under CB conditions if the area is under attack. Systems that can be employed as an MTF (Levels I, II, III, and IV) are described in this appendix.
F-2. Types of Collective Protection Shelter Systems
a. The CBPS system is employed at the BAS, DCS, and FST. The CBPS is attached to the hard-walled box on the rear of a high mobility multi-purpose wheeled vehicle (HMMWV). The BAS will have one CBPS system per treatment team; the DCS will have four CBPS systems; the FST will have three CBPS systems. Also, systems will be issued to other selected medical treatment teams. When employed at the DCS, the patient holding team will also require GP tents to hold their required number of patients (see [Chapter 4]). Patients held inside the CBPS will be those that have been decontaminated and admitted into the system for treatment and are recovering from the treatment procedures and are awaiting evacuation. Any patients held in the GP tent must remain in MOPP Level 4 (the GP tent will not have collective protection); these patients are those that are expected to RTD within 72 hours.
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