Anesthetics In The Medical Field

Imagine you are on a battlefield. You hear screams and cries of pain, gunfire, and bombs exploding all around you. These sounds are a second thought at this point because you have grown used to the noise because it is constant. You don’t even smell rotting flesh anymore because your brain blocks the smell because it is so constant. All around you see people dropping as you keep going praying, not even to God at this point, that you can live another day. When suddenly you feel a sharp pain in your thigh. You fall to the ground and cry out in pain. You fall unconscious because your body can not handle the pain you are going through. You become conscious for a few seconds while you are in an ambulance taking you to the nearest hospital while the

This was also the first time nurses were allowed to administer anesthetics to regular patients and soldiers who came right off the battlefield . This added tremendous value to the quality of care provided by the nurses and other medical staff during the war and also changed the speed by making the process faster that was required to keep up with all the wounded soldiers climbing in for treatment. According to the Army Nurse Corp Association, or the ANCA “American nurses served on shock, gas, orthopedic, and surgical specialty teams where they could be moved to the front lines in groups of five or six. These teams could help stabilize soldiers who otherwise would have to endure long evacuation processes to reach this type of care.” This changed the medical world when it came to surgeries. This meant surgeries that were fatal or impossible before the war suddenly became possible and less lethal because of the development of less toxic, morphine-derived anaesthesia type agents which helped reduce the amount of pain felt by the soldiers. This also allowed for safe surgeries because the tools and equipment that were used were cleaner which reduced infections, which in turn reduced the fatality rate of the soldiers and allowed for a cleaner more sanitary

Meatball surgery is where field surgeons and doctors found the most wounded soldiers, it did not matter what side they were fighting on or who they were fighting against, civilian or soldier it did not matter. These doctors were on the front lines, they got the most wounded soldiers and put them back together long enough so they could be taken to a real hospital in a neutral zone. Without these doctors thousands or even possibly millions more people would have died, and without these new medical innovations, inventions, and discoveries such as anesthetics, these doctors wouldn’t have been able to do their jobs effectively or even at all