Essays on Medical Evacuation

Introduction

The Vietnam War took place between 1961 and 1975. The technology of helicopters goes back to the 20th century. The US army had acquired experience on the effectiveness using helicopters during the World War II. Mobility set the pace of the war. Time, policy, politics, and circumstances converged with technology and adequate funding to create the Vietnam War. The US army entered Vietnam in May 1965 to find they were fighting a different kind of war than that for which they had been trained. However, they did not enter blindly. There were a large number of army officers already serving in ...

Introduction

Mass Casualty care is the combination of the number of patients and the requirements of care that exceed or challenge the ability of the community to provide adequate care to the patients by utilizing day-to day operations. Moreover, a Mass Causality Incident has the potential of quickly exhausting the resources in any community that are available for a response. The capability of the hospital response is dependent on the comprehensive contingency management plan that include worst scenarios such as mass causality incidence in order to enhance the readiness level that is required for a prompt response in the health care needs of ...

Medical evacuation

The introduction is succinct enough to catch the interest of the readers. It starts with why medical evacuation is important in the field and how it is important to have a continuous treatment of the patients once they have fallen in the field. This is an interesting topic. It is correctly captured in the abstract of the paper and is clearly explained. The author knew how to bring both the historical and technological aspect of this important issue. The author has brought the issue of medical evacuation in the first paragraph and in the second paragraph, brings the issue of ...