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Vietnam war hospital6/18/2023 Shows doctor with defibrillator paddles and shocking patient on operating table. Operating team of doctors, nurses and medics working on seriously wounded soldier.ĭoctor tries to revive patient with heart massage. Patient is carried on litter from emergency room to operating room. More scenes of seriously wounded patients being treated and prepared for surgery. Scene of "dust-off helicopter" as wounded soldier on litter (stretcher) is rushed from "dustoff helicopter" to emergency room. The tenseness of the situation is evident in the manner in which the medical team rushes about as each one does their duty. Intravenous procedures and oxygen are administered. Doctor, nurse and medics administer emergency treatment to a seriously wounded soldier in Vietnam. On television screens and magazine pages. soldier in Vietnam carried into hospital on stretcher (litter). While the Vietnam War raged roughly two decades’ worth of bloody and world-changing years compelling imagesmade their way out of the combat zones. Doctors and nurses treat wounded soldier. CU image of blood pressure measuring device on patient's arm. Army nurse takes blood pressure of patient in bed. ![]() Shows wounded soldiers in beds in the air inflatable ward element of the "MUST hospital". Army nurse in Vietnam checking medical charts at desk in holding area. Partly because of that, traffic fatalities last year numbered around 40,000, roughly a thirty percent decrease from the 1960s.Vietnam 1969 Surgical Field Hospital MUST MAST is still active, though it downsized with the Persian Gulf War and the development of civilian air-ambulance services. "Those are all going to transfer over and start a technological cascade that brings us to where we are today," Wunderlich said. Leaders of civilian medical operations began deploying the same kinds of helicopters and first aid equipment. Although dependents and embassy personnel still in-country used the hospital for outpatient care, the patients were primarily military. George Wunderlich says that news coverage of Vietnam medevac operations changed what Americans thought they deserved from emergency medical care. MAST offered the military a way of keeping its air crews trained while giving civilians a better chance of surviving serious accidents. The program was given trial runs at military installations near San Antonio, TX Colorado Springs, CO Seattle, WA Phoenix, Arizona and Mountain Home, ID. "It was the Vietnam evacuation platform located in the United States." "It was a helicopter manned by two pilots, a crew chief, and a medic in the back," said Lewis Barger of the Army Department Medical Museum. The 59-year-old doctors work to repair the. The program relied on a rescue format similar to the one used during Vietnam. 17 hours ago &0183 &32 As the lead trauma surgeon at a military hospital in Ukraines capital, Petro Nikitin has his hands deep in a war churning hundreds of miles away. MAST allowed military aviation units to help civilian communities with helicopter transport during emergencies. The Military Assistance to Safety and Traffic program, or MAST, was created in 1970 to mitigate the problem. In the 1960s traffic fatalities peaked at around 55,000 per year, far higher than today. This method was known as "scoop and go." It wasn't nearly sufficient to keep up with the carnage on the nation's highways at the time. "They're not carrying anything else except for minor bandaging to keep the blood out of their ambulance. "Two guys would get out, put you on a stretcher," he said. "The expectation when you called an ambulance in the 1960s was a Cadillac Hearse would show up," said George Wunderlich, a historian at the Army Medical Department Museum who also has experience as an EMS first responder and firefighter. Medical evacuation meant that casualties were treated quickly in hospital then flown. ![]() The military had a network of combat medical centers, support hospitals, and even ships where patients could be flown.īack in the U.S., emergency response systems weren't nearly as sophisticated. In a long, narrow country where road networks were often dangerous, air evacuation was a lifesaver. I thought, 'I might have a record here,'" Eberwine said. "At one point in time I had 19 patients on board. Sometimes he and his crew would get so overwhelmed with casualties that they wouldn't even use the litters, or stretchers, onboard the helicopter. Jim Eberwine was a Dust Off pilot with the 82 nd Medical Detachment back in 1966. Such en route care was a change from previous wars, when helicopter fleets were mainly equipped to transport the wounded to medical facilities. American Homefront Jim Eberwine, a former Dustoff pilot, shows off a photo series he put together to commemorate the work of aviators injured in service of the U.S.
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