Battlefield medicine - Evacuation route
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- Created on: 07-06-21 17:51
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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
- The first large, well equipped medical facility
- 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.
- Stretcher Bearers
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