Zusammenfassung der Ressource
History
- medicine
- ww1
- Thomas splint
- December 1950
- reduced from 80% death rate to under 20%
- kept leg straight and aloud blood flow
- used widely on the front
- evacuation rout
- for injured people on the front
- regimental aid posts
- dressing stations
- casualty cleaning station(CCS)
- ambulance units
- base hospital
- near ports
- lots of medical staff
- stay for a long time until they can go
- specialists
- larger and better equipped
- several miles away
- doctors and nurses
- reduced risked of infection until march 1918 base hospitals took that job
- mile back from front
- derelict buildings
- dugouts or tents
- field ambulance
- set them up
- RAMC
- medical officer
- stretcher-bearers
- nurses from 1915
- medical officer
- helped with first aid
- stretcher-bearers
- sent on to next if badly injured
- trench conditions
- dirty
- trench foot
- loss of feet
- rats
- carried disease
- the footboard stopped people from sinking in the mud
- rations
- not all trenches were muddy
- trench layout
- first few dug quickly in order for shelter
- improved over time
- drains
- better cover
- steps
- front line
- suport
- reserves
- communication
- artillery