Mobile medical team
An ( air ) mobile medical team (BAT or LBAT) of the Bundeswehr consists of a doctor with training / further education in rescue medicine (at least medical officer ), a paramedic or emergency paramedic (at least sergeant ) and a paramedic (from the rank group of the teams or of the non-commissioned officers without portepee ). It is the military counterpart to the civil ambulance . Since the LBAT consists of two Wolf vehicles , a second paramedic (and driver at the same time) is added.
Tasks of the (L) BAT
The BAT is mainly used to escort a convoy with the aim of providing first medical care as soon as possible . To do this, he carries out emergency medical first aid and ensures that the wounded or injured can be transported.
Its tasks are in detail
- Recognizing and treating life-threatening conditions
- Implementation of emergency medical initial measures
- Ensuring general medical first aid
- Implementation of limited medical NBC protective measures
- limited ability to recognize and treat mental health problems.
vehicles
As vehicles are currently the KrKw 2to BAT , the armored personnel FUCHS and protected vehicle YAK and in the airborne troops of gl light truck Wolf used. Since September 2007, the Bundeswehr also has the first BV 206 S as BAT in use . From March 2010, EAGLE IV in the BAT version were also procured.
Airmobile medical team
A special form of the mobile medical team is the air mobile medical team (LBAT). A special feature here is that the LBAT always has two 0.9 t trucks . One vehicle serves as an emergency doctor's vehicle (NEF) and is used to transport the medical equipment to the place of use, while the second vehicle is used as an ambulance (KTW) to transport the patient later. In the paratrooper troops, the BAT is dismounted on foot with a pulling cart for the required equipment. However, it was not intended to transport a wounded man.