Thomas Helling

Desperate Surgery in the Pacific War

Doctors and Damage Control for American Wounded, 1941-1945

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Caring for the wounded in the World War II Pacific Theater posed serious challenges to doctors and surgeons. The thick jungles, remote atolls and heavily defended Japanese islands of the Pacific presented dangers to medical personnel never before encountered in modern warfare, as did the devastating new kamikaze attacks. Sophisticated treatments, including complex surgery, were by necessity far removed from the fighting, requiring front line doctors to do the minimum--often under fire--to stabilize patients until they could be evacuated: "damage control," it would later be called. Navy doctors responsible for thousands of sailors aboard fleets in battle found caring for the wounded daunting or nearly impossible. Yet to save lives, medical resources had to be kept as close as possible to the action. This book systematically details the efforts and innovations of the doctors and surgeons who worked to preserve life under extreme peril.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 476
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 887g
• ISBN-13: 9781476664217
• ISBN-10: 1476664218
• Artikelnr.: 44947274

Autorenporträt

Thomas Helling, M.D., is a professor of surgery at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson. He has spent his career in clinical surgery and surgical education, with a special interest in trauma surgery and trauma system development. He was a member of the United States Army Medical Corps, serving nine years in the Army Reserves and receiving an honorable discharge in 2000 as a lieutenant colonel.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Prelude I.
Homeland
1.
The Dawn of Damage Control
2.
Interlude II.
The South Pacific
3.
The Solomon Islands III.
The Southwest Pacific
4.
Portable Surgical Hospitals, Burma and the Buna Campaign
5.
The Seventh Amphibious Force
6.
The Surgical Consultants IV.
The Central Pacific
7.
Betio, Tarawa Atoll
8.
Saipan, Marianas Islands
9.
Shock 10.
Abdominal Injuries 11.
Peleliu 12.
Arterial Injuries 13.
Chest Injuries 14.
Iwo Jima 15.
Head Injuries 16.
Extremity Injuries 17.
Okinawa V.
The War at 18.
Savo Island and the Naval Battles Off Guadalcanal 19.
The Fate of the Princeton and the Birmingham 20.
Taffy 3 21.
The Ill-Fated USS Franklin 22.
Kamikaze 23.
Burns VI.
In Search of Heroes 24.
The Ships 25.
The Men Epilogue Chapter Notes References Index