Title: The evolution of forward surgery in the US Army : from the Revolutionary War to the combat operations of the 21st century /
Authors: Steahly, Lance P.; Cannon, David W.,; Borden Institute (U.S.)
Year: 2018
Subjects: United States. Medical care History.; United States.; United States.; United States.; Medicine, Military United States History.; Surgery, Military United States History.; Military Medicine history; General Surgery history; Armed Forces Medical care; Medicine, Military; Surgery, Military; United States; United States
Abstract: "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 War: 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.