Battlefield medicine - Evacuation route

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  • Features of the evacuation route
    • Stretcher Bearers
      • recovered the dead and wounded
      • carried basic medical supplies
        • bandages and morphine for pain relief
      • 16 bearers per battalion of soldiers (up to 1000)
        • often not enough bearers
      • had to deal with mud, shell-craters and crowded twisted trenches
    • Regimental Aid Post (RAP)
      • always close to the front line, sometimes in the firing trench
      • one medical officer and a team of up to 30 orderlies
      • regimental medical officer distinguished between the lightly wanted and those who needed more medical attention
    • Field Ambulance and Dressing Stations
      • large, mobile medical unit with medical officers
      • set up dressing stations and received the wounded sent from the RAP
      • quarter of a mile behind the front line
      • All serious cases sent to the Casualty clearing stations
    • Casualty Clearing Station
      • The first large, well equipped medical facility
        • performing more operations than hospitals, including many amputations
        • contained operating theatres, mobile x-ray units
      • usually around 7 doctors with nursing and other staff
    • Base Hospitals
      • general or stationary hospitals
      • could take up to 2500 patients
      • 67% of the wounded sent there
      • operating theatres, labs, x-ray departments, some had gas poisoning centres.

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