CIRCULATORY DYNAMICS
CIRCULATORY DYNAMICS
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循环动力学
DOI:
10.1136/bmj.1.4863.689-b
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发表时间:
1954
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通讯作者:
P. Wood
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作者:
P. Wood
The Medical Department of the Royal Navy are to be congratulated on the appearance of this history of the administration of the Royal Naval Medical Services in the second world war. Every medical officer who served with the Senior Service will be pleased to read this book, for it has much to interest him, and when we remember the very small and quite inadequate volume which appeared after the first world war our gratification is accentuated. Although several medical officers have served on the editorial committee for varying periods and have acted as the editor of the History from time to time, the person who has really been responsible for this volume is the official editor, Surgeon Commander Coulter, and all who know him realize what a great job he has done.The Navy in wartime is quite a different thing from that in peace, and in the ships themselves there is often a 60, b increase of the normal complement of personnel. When this fact alone is considered, together with the possibility of the ship serving in any of the seven seas, sometimes in tropical climates and sometimes in arctic, this makes the life of a ship's medical officer a busy one. With every new war there are bound to be new weapons for fighting the ship, and new conditions and new problems arise for the medical officer. The administration of a self-contained unit such as a battleship is quite a different problem from that of a unit ashore. The black-out conditions and the rigid requirements of damage-control organization in wartime have to be seen to be appreciated. The second world war necessitated a vast expansion of the Naval Medical Service both in personnel and in hospitals. The Royal Naval blood transfusion service in Camden Town came into being in 1942and with it the blood transfusion units which wereto do such excellent service as the war progressed. Some of the large Naval hospitals at home suffered extensively from enemy bombing, and auxiliary hospitals had to be equipped and staffed. All this was carried out while various researchproblems were being pursued, such as underwater blast, immersion foot, and the prevention of bums. The Naval medical establishments abroad increased as the war progressed and patients were evacu-ated by air from many of these. This volume enumerates all these establishments and hospitals and gives the number of patients treated in each and the capitalexpenditure involved. We look forward to seeing the second volume, to be devoted to campaigns, for we know Surgeon Commander Coulter will give us another very interesting book.