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  • The british sector of the western front 1914-18
    • developments before the war
      • x-rays
        • discovered in 1895 by Roentegen
        • -effects of radiation were not fully understood-easily brocken glass tube-took 90 minutes-difficult to move around
      • aseptic surgy
        • joseph lister 1865
        • -surgeons washed-rubber gloves and gowns worn-steam serilysed equipment-sterile heating system
      • blood transfusions
        • 3 blood groups A B O discovered by karl landsteiner in 1901stopped blood rejection
      • blood banks
        • sodium nitrate stopped blood clotting
    • trenches
      • formed from stalemate
      • the BEF was sent to France to stop germans advancing through Belgium
      • frontline
        • support
          • reserve
          • connected by comunication trenches
            • frontline
              • support
                • reserve
                • connected by comunication trenches
        • dug in a zig zag pattern
        • no mans land was between trenches
        • 2.5m deep
      • key battles
        • 1st battle of Ypres 1914
          • hill 60 1915
            • 2nd battle of Ypres 1915
              • battle of Somme 1916
                • battle of Arras 1917
                  • 3rd battle of Ypres 1917
                    • battle of Cambrai 1917
                      • 1st scale use of tanks
                    • waterlogged trenches, men drowned
                      • 245000 casualties
                  • 160000 british and canadian casualties
                    • 24000 men hiding in tunnels
                • creeping barragetanks unsuccessful
                  • 400000 british deaths
              • first time the germans used chlorine gas
            • man made hill captured by germans giving strategic advantage
              • british placed 5 mines under it and blew the top off
          • british kept control of english channel
            • 50000 troop loses
      • salient = battlefield surrounded on three sides
      • medical conditions
        • Trench fever
          • Shellshock
            • shrapnel
              • trench foot
                • gas gangrene
                  • gas attacks
                    • chlorine, mustardphosgene
                      • burningblisterssuffication
                        • gas masks
                  • infected open wounds
                    • chlorine, mustardphosgene
                      • burningblisterssuffication
                        • gas masks
                • standing in water
                  • infected open wounds
                    • painful swelling
                      • dead tissue
                        • whale oil
                          • amputation
                            • dead tissue
                    • bullets and explosions
                      • standing in water
                        • painful swelling
                          • whale oil
                            • amputation
                        • cuts
                          • steel helmets
                      • phycological  damage
                        • bullets and explosions
                          • cuts
                            • steel helmets
                          • mental breakdown
                            • notunerstood
                        • body lice
                          • phycological  damage
                            • mental breakdown
                              • notunerstood
                            • flu-llike
                              • delousing stations
                          • causes
                            • body lice
                              • flu-llike
                                • delousing stations
                              • symptoms
                                • solutions
                            • chain of evacuation
                              • Regemental ais post RAP
                                • Dressing stations
                                  • casualty clearing stations
                                    • base hospitals
                                      • located near the coastdivided into wards
                                    • dealt with criical injuriestriage system
                                  • dealt with more serious injurieslocated in bunkers and tents
                                • immediate first aidaimed to get men back fighting
                            • RAMCroyal army medical corps founded in 1898
                            • FANY first aid nursing yeomanry, drove ambulances and gave first aid
                              • allowed women to join the force
                              • initially not used by british
                            • ambulance wagons
                              • horse drawn made injuries worse
                              • moterised ambulances were introduced from public donationd
                              • trainscanals
                            • problems facing treatment
                              • contamination
                                • volume of casualties
                                  • blood loss
                                    • the thomas splintimproved survival rates 20-82%
                                    • head injuries
                                      • harvey cushing used local anestetic and magnets
                                      • plastic surgery
                                        • harold gilles restored facial features
                                          • queens hospital, kent
                                • how infection was dealt with
                                  • debridementsamputation

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