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medicine on the western front - Coggle Diagram
medicine on the western front
medical conditions on the western front
the trenches were extremely muddy, cold and infested with different animals such as; maggots and rats
shell-shock was an early name for ptsd, this is where soldiers would be so traumatised by events in the war that they would have visions of the events afterwards, tragically in ww1 this was seen as cowardice and those affected by shell-shock could have been shot.
trench fever was a flue like illness that affected over 1 million soldiers.
trench foot was basically a form of foot rot where soldiers had been stood in the wet and muddiness for hours on end., an attempted cure was to let maggots eat away the rotted skin.
all together gasses killed 1% of casualties in ww1
the gasses used were, mustard gas, chlorine gas and phosgene gas, phosgene killing the most people
39% of wounds were caused by rifles and explosives in ww1
work of the RAMC and FANY
the first 6 FANY's arrived in France in 1914 and for 2 years their main use was aiding the french and Belgian, FANY's were allowed to drive ambulances in 1916.
the clearing hospitals would be increasingly important because they would determine how many soldiers would get to the base hospitals at the end of the evacuation system, the base hospitals would hold up to 1040 soldiers so they wanted to leave those ones to the soldiers that really needed vital help
the regimental aid post would give the casualty basic first aid, they were usually set up in buildings near the fight.
at first the soldier would go to a regimental aid post, they would then get to a collecting station, they would then go to a clearing station which would determine if they needed further care which they would get at a field hospital.
the RAMC ( royal army medical corp) were responsible for the medical care of the soldiers, and FANY (Fist Aid Nursing Yeomanry) were in charge of all the nursing responsibility
casualty clearing stations were mainly set up near train stations or water ways so the casualties that needed lots of help would be able to evacuate quickly.
the dressing station would assess the wounded, they may either put dressings on the wound or operate on the casualty
the underground hospital was located in arras, France ,it was built into caves and was located 800 metres away from the german frontline.
experiments and surgery in the western front
delousing stations were set up to stop trench fever from spreading.
marie curie helped in the production of the x ray , whih was able to identify broken bones.
James Blundell invented the blood transfusion, this meant that soldiers that had lost a lot of blood were able to maintain a regular amount which kept them alive.
carbolic acid was able to disinfect wounds so decreased the amount of deaths through infection in ww1.
they used sodium citrate to prevent the blood from clotting after it left the body.
a lot of men would die from wounds because they would get infected with things like tetanus.