Word: evac
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the Mateur and Bizerte battles the Charlotte Evac was just behind the lines. The unit got so good at moving that in the final North African push it discharged patients in Beja and received some in Tunis (some 55 miles apart) on the same...
...broad hill with gravel driveways now has a settled look. Italian prisoners have installed running water and some of the other comforts of home. The pharmacy hands out prescriptions and runs a blood bank (plasma is not enough for some cases with great blood loss, and the Evac stores whole blood bled from its own personnel). The shock tents give transfusions, prepare men for operations; the operating tent can handle 16 cases an hour around the clock. The dentistry tent with three chairs was for a long time the only place in North Africa where U.S. servicemen could get false...
...improvised equipment: sterilizers made from potato cans, shower baths made from gasoline drums, hinges from shell cases, an icebox from a Coca-Cola vending machine, can openers from any old thing (though 90% of field rations come in cans, the hospital set out without a single can opener). The Evac's most elaborate contrivance is a "Hawley table," a device for holding a man's body suspended for the application of big casts, which some men from the Air Corps Ordnance Department made from spare parts...
Impartial Treatment. Sicilian casualties (both Allied and Axis) are picked up by the U.S. Army Medical Corps in Sicily, get first aid, are then flown over the water in an air ambulance to a field near the Evac. A ground ambulance picks them up and deposits them at the hospital's receiving tent. There a casualty is treated much like a patient entering a ward at home. His field medical record is begun with entries describing his wound and how he got it-these entries are copied from the tag attached to his coverall. The record, stamped with...
...Charlotte Evac is a desperately efficient place these days, but its person nel still finds time for a little fun. Right now on the ground outside the surgical tent are two neat patches outlined in white pebbles and decorated with a heart-&-arrows design that says: "Lieut. Ferry man, Miss Guyett, Ward...