WW1 and dat!! Flashcards
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Regimental War Diary
Transportation problems
Difficult terrain - some places only stretcher bearers and horse wagons could be used
Many roads and railway lines had been destroyed
Constant shelling and artillery fire made recovery of injured very difficult
No motor ambulances were sent there and not enough horses to cope
Public appeal in Britain raised money for 512 motor ambulances
Feature of Regimental Aid Post
Close to the front line 200-300 yards
RM officer was helped by stretcher-bearers in administering first aid - sent more serioues injuries onto next stage
Features of Field ambulance
Mobile medical unit of RAM - set dressing statiosns
Mile back from the front line in drelict buildings
Stations were staffed by medical officers and stretcher bearers
CCS
Large and better equipped suituiated in buildings several miles away from the front line staffed by docotrs and nurses
Prioritsed treatinfg life-threanting injuries to men who had a chance of surival
Base Hospital
Situated near ports on the coast - had many medical stuff including doctors
patients could stay for some time before returning to the front or being sent home for futher treatment
Carrel-dakin method
Solutions: Debridement (cutting away of infected tissue) & Carrel-Dakin method (a sterilised salt solution put into the wound through a tube) or amputation if nothing else worked.
Impact: A reduction in amputation, but by 1918 240,000 men lost limbs.
