![]() ![]() ![]() “There’s hardly a corner of today’s health-care environment that doesn’t trace its roots back to the battlefield,” “These changes happen because there is a profound need, and because the injuries are of a scale, unfortunately, where you have enough cases to pioneer a technique and enough evidence to show that it works,” said Scott McGaugh, a San Diego military historian. Medical evacuation by helicopter started in the Korean War. World War II was a proving ground for blood banks and antibiotics. World War I brought the first widespread use of X-rays. The advances they make then spread to civilian health care.Īnesthesia has ties to the Civil War. ![]() This has often been the case during the mayhem of military combat, which forces doctors to improvise, and quickly. All got implemented in Afghanistan, and all saved lives. Just what endures from the 20-year war is an open question, except in one area: battlefield medicine. service member leaves Afghanistan, perhaps by early next month, America’s longest war on foreign soil will end - and so too a mission initially dubbed Operation Enduring Freedom. ![]()
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