MEDICAL AND DENTAL SPACESMEDICAL AND DENTAL SPACES
4.10 DISTRIBUTED MEDICAL EQUIPMENT REQUIREMENTS
4.10.1 First Aid Boxes (FAB). First aid boxes provide a means for dispersing emergency supplies throughout the ship for use by the crew. Each FAB will be marked with a red cross and “FOR EMERGENCY USE ONLY” in 1-inch high red letters in accordance with COMNAVSURFORINST 6000.1 and COMNAVAIRFORINST 6000.1 and shall be provided, at a minimum, in weather protected areas, in or near each of the following spaces:
a. Air control spaces.
b. Anchor handling room spaces.
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c. Ship control spaces including Pilot House, Flag Control, CIC, Damage Control Central (DCC), and After Steering and Repair Lockers.
d. Steering Cargo holds and magazines.
e. Manned communication spaces.
f. Hangars and hangar deck bays.
g. Manned engine and fire room spaces.
h. Machine shops, general workshops, or other industrial work centers.
i. Weapon control spaces.
A FAB can serve several locations if it is mounted within 100 feet of the required spaces. Additional areas for FABs may be designated by the Naval Administration. Other FABs may be mounted at the discretion of the Naval Administration or Attending Surveyor with special attention to areas where personnel are assigned major work stations, near flammable storerooms, and in major passageways.
4.10.2 Portable Medical Lockers (PMLs)/Mass Casualty Boxes (MCBs). Portable Medical Lockers (PMLs)/Mass Casualty Boxes (MCBs) shall be provided on each ship with a medical department representative. One PML/MCB shall be provided for each 200 accommodations. Not less than two lockers are required on any ship. One PML/MCB shall be located
near, but not in, each repair party locker. Ships with a helicopter or aircraft capability shall have not less than one PML/MCB installed in or near each hangar in an easily accessible and weather protected area. After the above listed mandatory spaces have been accommodated, any remaining PML/MCBs shall be installed in the designated medical triage area. Appropriate brackets, shelves, and lashing shall be provided for each PML/MCB to prevent movement.
4.10.3 Stretchers/Litters. Stretchers/litters shall be in accordance with COMNAVSURFORINST 6000.1 and COMNAVAIRFORINST 6000.1 and stowed with appropriate stowage brackets in weather protected areas.
a. The number of Stokes litters shall be provided as follows:
(1) For the first 3,000 accommodations, there shall be 1.5 litters per 100 accommodations (minimum of 7), to include the following mandatory locations:
(a) Battle dressing station – one.
(b) Each messing space – one.
(c) Flight deck and helicopter deck; Stokes type – one, sea-air rescue type – one.
(d) Transfer at sea station – one Stokes type rigged in accordance with NWP 4-01.4.
(2) For more than 3,000 accommodations, there shall be 1 Stokes type litter per 100 accommodations. Any quantity of litters in excess of the required locations shall be installed along passages used by damage control parties.
b. One sea-air rescue litter with trail line assembly shall be stowed in the aviation workshop or vertical replenishment (VERTREP) locker.
c. Decontamination litters shall be provided on tenders and CRTS. Decontamination litters on CRTS shall be provided with two litter supports per litter. Stowage brackets shall be provided in casualty reception and triage areas. No more than 50 percent of total authorized decontamination litters shall be stowed in storeroom spaces. The total required
decontamination litters shall be one for each authorized patient bed plus triage requirements.
d. Spine boards with Reeve sleeves II shall be provided. One litter, with stowage brackets, shall be installed near the uppermost exit of each escape trunk with vertical ladders.
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4.10.4 Gun Bags. Gun bags shall be in accordance with COMNAVSURFORINST 6000.1 and
COMNAVAIRFORINST 6000.1. These first aid kits are considered sufficient for 12 people. The number of stowage brackets and hooks for battle stations remote from a bulkhead mounted first aid box or where 12 or more persons are
concentrated shall be as required by the Naval Administration.
4.10.5 Cylinder, Oxygen, Size D. Two cylinders (in accordance with RR-C-901), with stowage brackets, shall be installed near the head of the operating and treatment tables in each battle dressing station, medical treatment room, surgical dressing room, aviation examining room, and Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat (EENT) treatment room. One cylinder, with stowage bracket, shall be installed in the casualty receiving/triage area for each allotted litter location. Since these cylinders are transported with the litter patient to the medical treatment spaces, stowage brackets near the heads of the litter locations are not required. Cylinder stowage shall be in accordance with Grade B shock requirements of MIL-S-901 and
COMNAVSURFORINST 6000.1 and COMNAVAIRFORINST 6000.1.
4.10.6 Cylinder, Oxygen, Size H. When a piped-in oxygen system is not installed, the following shall apply: One cylinder (in accordance with RR-C-901) shall be installed in each battle dressing station, medical treatment room, surgical dressing room, aviation examining room, EENT treatment room, and operating room. One cylinder shall be installed at the head of each intensive care and recovery room bed, for every two ward beds or every four ward berths. One cylinder shall be installed for every two litter spaces in the casualty collection (triage) area. The cylinders shall be arranged around the spaces’
peripheries. Cylinder stowage shall be in accordance with Grade B shock requirements of MIL-S-901 and COMNAVSURFORINST 6000.1 and COMNAVAIRFORINST 6000.1.
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