BSWF
- Created by: 13froyle
- Created on: 08-12-17 18:22
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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
- x-rays
- 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
- support
- frontline
- support
- 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
- battle of Cambrai 1917
- 160000 british and canadian casualties
- 24000 men hiding in tunnels
- 3rd battle of Ypres 1917
- creeping barragetanks unsuccessful
- 400000 british deaths
- battle of Arras 1917
- first time the germans used chlorine gas
- battle of Somme 1916
- man made hill captured by germans giving strategic advantage
- british placed 5 mines under it and blew the top off
- 2nd battle of Ypres 1915
- british kept control of english channel
- 50000 troop loses
- hill 60 1915
- 1st battle of Ypres 1914
- salient = battlefield surrounded on three sides
- medical conditions
- Trench fever
- Shellshock
- shrapnel
- trench foot
- gas gangrene
- gas attacks
- chlorine, mustardphosgene
- burningblisterssuffication
- gas masks
- burningblisterssuffication
- chlorine, mustardphosgene
- infected open wounds
- chlorine, mustardphosgene
- burningblisterssuffication
- gas masks
- burningblisterssuffication
- chlorine, mustardphosgene
- gas attacks
- standing in water
- infected open wounds
- painful swelling
- dead tissue
- whale oil
- amputation
- dead tissue
- dead tissue
- amputation
- dead tissue
- infected open wounds
- gas gangrene
- bullets and explosions
- standing in water
- painful swelling
- whale oil
- amputation
- amputation
- whale oil
- painful swelling
- cuts
- steel helmets
- steel helmets
- standing in water
- trench foot
- phycological damage
- bullets and explosions
- cuts
- steel helmets
- steel helmets
- cuts
- mental breakdown
- notunerstood
- notunerstood
- bullets and explosions
- shrapnel
- body lice
- phycological damage
- mental breakdown
- notunerstood
- notunerstood
- mental breakdown
- flu-llike
- delousing stations
- delousing stations
- phycological damage
- Shellshock
- causes
- body lice
- flu-llike
- delousing stations
- delousing stations
- flu-llike
- symptoms
- solutions
- solutions
- body lice
- Trench fever
- 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
- base hospitals
- dealt with more serious injurieslocated in bunkers and tents
- casualty clearing stations
- immediate first aidaimed to get men back fighting
- Dressing stations
- Regemental ais post RAP
- 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
- harold gilles restored facial features
- blood loss
- how infection was dealt with
- debridementsamputation
- volume of casualties
- contamination
- developments before the war
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