Desperate Surgery in the Pacific War

Doctors and Damage Control for American Wounded, 1941-1945

Thomas Helling (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

476 Seiten

2017
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-6421-7 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	05.10.2016
Zusatzinfo	18 photos, 10 maps, notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	816 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4766-6421-8 / 1476664218
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-6421-7 / 9781476664217
Zustand	Neuware