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The Falkland Islands Campaign Resuscitation and Anesthesia in a Battle Situation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Malcolm D. Jowitt
Malcolm D. Jowitt
Affiliation:
Cambridge Military Hospital, Aldershot, Hampshire, United Kingdom.
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During the early summer of 1982, Her Majesty's Armed Forces embarked upon an operation to repossess the Falkland Islands. The campaign was fought over a difficult terrain and under hostile climatic conditions, 8,000 miles from home shores. Resupply was difficult, sometimes unreliable and, during the initial battles, medical practitioners supporting combat troops had to practice ingenuity and improvisation. During the battles, 225 British Soldiers were killed and 777 wounded. Of the wounded who presented at the British Advanced Surgical Centers, only 7 subsequently died (1%). 658 battle casualties were dealt with at the various land-based surgical facilities. About 270 general anesthetics were given.

Type
Section Three—Military Contributions to Disaster Medicine
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 1 , Issue 1: Military and Disaster Medicine , Spring 1985 , pp. 43 - 49
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1985

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