Coral Sea (CV 43) - Naval Cruise Book

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Q- f--'--- -f 4, .,v .4 '- MEDICAL MEDICAL DEPARTMENT The mission of the Medical Department is to provide total health care delivery to the crew of the USS CORAL SEA, and to support the primary mission of this vessel. u O The department consists of a fully equipped 27 bed hospital including a 2-bed intensive care unit and a 2-bed infection isolation unit. Located throughout the ship are extensive medical supply storage facilities and six external emergency battle dressing stations. The staff and its deployed elements consist of six Medical Department Officers, expertly trained and highly skilled in Aerospace Medicine, General Medicine, Occupational and Environmental Health, Optometry, Radiation Health, Emergency and Elective General Surgery and Health Care Administration. Expert adjunct and emergency services are provided by a team of 35 highly skilled Hospital Corpsmen which includes Administrative, Aviation Medicine, Clinical Laboratory, EENT, Operating Room, Pharmacy, Preventive Medicine, X-Ray and Field Medical Technicians who are considered the world's finest paramedical support ersonnel. P The Medical Department provides comprehensive emergency medical treatment, complete outpatient and hospital services and is responsible for monitoring shipboard and habitability systems in the following areas: Food Service, Potable Water, Infectious Diseases and Pest Control, Heat Stress, Hearing Conservation, Sight Conserva- tion, Cellube and Water Glycol Registry, Radiation Health, Personnel Reliability Program, Physical Examination and Immunization Programs. The Medical Department provides personnel for all ship's functions and evolutions manning the stations as UNREPXVERTREP, Damage Control, Repair Party Support, Inport Fire Party, Beach Guard Detachments, Mass Casualty, Life Boats, Search and Rescue, Medical Evacuations, all Flight Deck Operations, General Quarters, and its Emergency Response Teams and Flying Squad members answer to over four hundred real and potential personnel casualty calls annually. The responsibility of the Medical Department to provide comprehensive medical care extends 24 hours a day, everyday. In foreign ports, we maintain the same self -sufficiency as adequate care is not always available elsewhere. Our Beach Detachment of six experienced corpsment performed in a highly proficient and professional manner handling all casualties ashore, coordinating medical evacuations with the shipboard medical team and working closely with civilian medical personnel and local authorities. Through the efforts of these dedicated professional, the assistance and help with the entire crew, and total command support the 1979-80 WESTPACfIndian Ocean Deployment of the CORAI SEA must be considered a total success by all standards. .The Officers and Men of the CORAL SEA Medical Department through constant training surveillance of shipboard requirements and professional pride constantly strive to provide the best medical care afloat. They are truly - The Best in the West . Taking- care of the aches, pains and the injuries that are inevitable in a floating community of 4,300 is the responsibility of the men of Coral Sea's Medical Department. Staffed with the expertise of six medical officers and thirty five skilled hospital Corpsmen, H Division operates one of the finest medical centers afloat. Complete with 27 beds, a pharmacy, an intensive care unit and complete X-ray and emergency facilities Coral Sea's H Division is capable of caring for almost any medical need. Intensive training, discipline, and professional pride is the prescription for being The Best in the West , and H Division follows the doctor's order closely.

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