Medevac’s SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) are primarily designed and used to support the evacuation of patients requiring clinical interventions. Procedures are governed by various evacuation laws and subject to life safety regulations. Safety laws and regulations are in place to ensure that the process of evacuating a patient or victim of an accident or any other disaster is supported by medical support and quality evacuation.

Some of the laws to which MEDAVAC SOP is subject are:

• Humanitarian Evacuation Law
• Federal rules and regulations on mine clearance, evacuation and safe transport of patients as adopted by standards
• International humanitarian laws on evacuation
• Mine Action Standards

Evacuation procedures must be properly planned to achieve comprehensive health care support during the evacuation. Some of the advantages of Medevac SOP are these components:

• Clinical support: Evacuation staff, made up of paramedics and disaster doctors, ensure that the victim is treated immediately. Furthermore, doctors also make sure that efficient medical intervention is used while the patient or injured person is in transit to a medical facility.
• Effective communication skills and systems: The evacuation process is a delicate procedure that can only be safeguarded with exceptional communication skills. The MEDEVAC SOP ensures effective communication at all levels. Communication between the members of the rescue team and also with the coordinating agency, the injured people and the reference health center is clear. The communication process is supported by communication devices such as pagers, mobile phones, radio call devices, and GPRS location systems and other advanced communication appliances.
• Efficient coordination: The SOP ensures a good coordination strategy. The role of each member of the evacuation team is clearly defined to avoid confusion once in the evacuation field. For a successful evacuation, a military-like evacuation strategy is adopted and is highly efficient.

Although MEDEVAC PCOS are viable medical rescue strategies, they have certain limitations. Some of the limitations are:

1. High Risk Assignments: Procedures are considered high risk assignments for both the rescue victim and evacuation personnel.
2. Procedures are not profitable: In some cases, procedures become more complex in a complex evacuation mission. Such complex missions require a large number of specialized personnel, advanced equipment and expensive logistics.
3. Bureaucratic decision-making process: medical evacuation missions require urgent intervention. However, some of the MEDEVAC SOP concepts result in a delayed decision-making process that could endanger the life of the evacuated victim. There are processes that open space for broad consultations that are bureaucratic.

For those seeking the services of MEDAVAC, they must be sure that they are hiring the services of a competent company. It is always a wise decision for a business or individual to be informed of the standard operating procedures of a particular MEDVAC service provider. The evacuation of an injured person, patient or victim of a disaster is not an ordinary task, but a very fragile task that must be handled with the utmost care in all facets of medical evacuation. From the rescue camp, the radio control station to the medical care facility, the evacuation process must comply with national and international MEDVAC SOPs.