The evolution of forward surgery in the US Army : from the Revolutionary War to the combat operations of the 21st century / edited by Lance P. Steahly, MD, Colonel, Medical Corps US Army (Retired) and David W. Cannon, Sr., Major, Medical Service Corps US Army (Retired).

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

Steahly, Lance P., editor.

Cannon, David W., Sr., editor.

Borden Institute (U.S.), issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Army--Medical care--History.

United States.

United States. Army.

Medicine, Military--United States--History.

Medicine, Military.

Surgery, Military--United States--History.

Surgery, Military.

Military Medicine--history.

General Surgery--history.

Armed Forces--Medical care.

Medical Subjects:

Military Medicine--history.

General Surgery--history.

United States.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, [1], 456 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Fort Sam Houston, Texas : Borden Institute, US Army Medical Department Center and School, Health Readiness Center of Excellence, 2018.

Summary:

"This volume in the Borden Institute's history series will describe forward US Army surgery from the 1700s to the present time. The book will look at advances in medicine and surgery that improved the lot of the American soldier. In particular, the book will examine the impact of disease upon troop strength, which had special impact in the Revolutionary War through the post-Civil War period. Forward surgery in the modern sense came of age in World War I. The challenge of so many different theaters of conflict in World War II will be examined from the portable surgical hospital of the China-Burma-India Theater of Operations to the surgical evacuation hospital teams of the European Theater of Operations. The evolving care models will feature the story of the Korean War mobile army surgical hospital. The defining performance of helicopter air evacuation in Vietnam, along with improved surgical techniques, will be discussed. Finally, the many advances of forward surgery from the post-Vietnam era to the present will be presented."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Casualty care from the Revolutionary War to the War 1812 / Lance P. Steahly

Surgery and medicine in the War of 1812: a new nation challenged / Lance P. Steahly

The Civil War: military medical care in the War Between the States / Lance P. Steahly

Transitions: army medicine in the post-civil war period to the start of World War I / Lance P. Steahly

Forward surgery in the Great wWr: a war of new technologies / Lance P. Steahly

World War II: Army forward surgery on a worldwide scale / Lance P. Steahly

Forward surgery in the Korean War: the mobile Army surgical hospitals / Scott C. Woodard

Vietnam: the rise of helicopter medical evacuation in a war against a new kind of enemy / Lance P. Steahly

From the Falklands to the Balkans: toward formal designation of the forward surgical team / Christopher A. VanFosson

Put to the test: forward surgical teams challenged during the Global War on Terrorism / Jason M. Seery and David W. Cannon

Homeland defense, contingency operations, and future directions / David C. Lynn and Jason M. Seery

Acronyms and abbreviations.

Notes:

Paper version available for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Publishing Office.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource, PDF version; title from cover (AMEDDC&S, viewed March 11, 2019).

Other Format:

Print version: Evolution of forward surgery in the US Army

ISBN:

9780160940088

0160940087

9780160940095

0160940095

9780160940101

0160940109

OCLC:

1057240919