Battlefield Medicine

Battlefield medicine is the treatment of Soldier s in or near an area of combat. Medicine has been greatly advanced by procedures that were developed in order to treat the wounds inflicted during combat.

Among the notable medical advances made on the battlefield:

The practice of '' Triage '', by Baron Dominique Jean Larrey during the Napoleonic Wars .

Advances in Surgery - especially Amputation , during the Napoleonic Wars.

The first practical method for transporting Blood , by Norman Bethune during the Spanish Civil War .

Ambulance s or dedicated vehicles for the purpose of carrying injured persons

The extension of Emergency Medicine to prehospital settings through the use of Emergency Medical Technician s

The use of helicopters as ambulances, or MEDEVAC s

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