Chapter 441: Field Medical Team and Medical Tape
Guan Yu has not been seen since returning from the war. Li Mengxi wanted to ask Guan Yu for advice on the use of Wufeng Mingdi but could not find anyone.
But when Li Mengxi went to the wounded barracks with a few dozen eggs, he unexpectedly saw Guan Yu there.
"General Guan is here too." Li Mengxi greeted Guan Yu with a smile.
The eggs were placed on Tian Bu's car, and Li Mengxi and Guan Yu found a place nearby to chat.
"Xi'er, in this battle, four of my cavalry were killed and nine were wounded.
One man had a gun inserted into his abdomen and the bleeding continued. After the war, he was carried more than ten miles back to the camp, but he bled to death halfway." Guan Yu looked at Li Mengxi and said, "If we go to war again, military doctors should accompany him."
"Oh!" Li Mengxi nodded, "That's true. What's overlooked is that it's not enough to have military doctors in the army. We should set up a field medical team."
Guan Yu's words reminded Li Mengxi that although the military's medical strength was gradually increasing, the field hospitals in the rear areas were returned to the rear areas. Sometimes they would lead soldiers and most of them to go out to fight for more than ten miles. If there was any serious trauma, they would be brought back more than ten miles away.
, bleeding to death.
Taking this time as an example, Li Mengxi recalled for a moment that he remembered that when he went to fight the Yellow Turbans, he didn't even bring a stretcher, not to mention a military doctor.
How did Guan Yu's wounded soldiers come back without a stretcher? Could it be that one person carried the legs and the other carried the head like a corpse?
If this is the case, the wounded soldier may have died because the lifting method was incorrect, which caused the wound to tear more and accelerated death due to blood loss. Maybe, if there was a stretcher to carry him, the wound would not be easily affected, and he would not have died.
Li Mengxi named the military doctors accompanying the combat team the Field Medical Team. Although the famous doctors were difficult to pronounce, Guan Yu could fully understand the meaning.
Although military doctors who work with combat troops face the most situations, they deal with emergency trauma, not other things, such as emergency bleeding, emergency suturing of wounds, pulling out arrows, etc., rather than treating headaches and brain fever.
Therefore, Li Mengxi combined his previous life experience with the current actual situation in the rebel army, and discussed with Guan Yu, and he formulated a preliminary battlefield medical care system.
"[Field Medical Team] refers to the military medical team accompanying the combat team.
When the soldiers go into battle, they bring armor and arrows, and the medical team carries some liquor, bandages, catgut for suturing, needles, a tent to isolate the dust from the battlefield, and a stretcher. Therefore, the medical team sets out,
It is necessary to bring all the rescue supplies together. Since there are few military doctors in the army and there are many medical supplies, it is too difficult to carry dozens of supplies with just a few military doctors. Therefore, we should send two thousand soldiers to cooperate as a carrier.
After the battle, there are sometimes many casualties, and the accompanying medical staff is insufficient and cannot treat all of them. The lightly wounded should be sent back to the camp for treatment. At this time, stretchers are needed to transport the wounded from the battlefield to the army.
The purpose of a stretcher is to stretch it steadily. Stability means less bumps. Stretch means less impact on the wound. Less bumpiness means less blood loss. Less impact on the wound means the injury will not be more serious.
If dozens or hundreds of people are injured in a battle, dozens or hundreds of stretchers may be needed. If you only carry a few stretchers during the march, they will be far from enough.
Therefore, when marching, in addition to carrying armor and arrows, soldiers should also carry enough stretchers.
If one stretcher is used for twenty people, then fifty stretchers should be carried for one thousand people.
When we arrive at the battlefield, the stretcher is thrown down on the spot, which does not affect the battle."
The important tool for battlefield medical care is bandages, and the secondary equipment is alcohol, and then hemostatic drugs and bandages. If you want to improve the level of rescue, tents are indispensable. The battlefield environment is trampled by people and horses, and there is smoke and dust everywhere. There are countless flying dust in this environment, and it is natural.
It is easy to cause infection, so a tent that can isolate dust can create a bacteria-less environment, which is related to the success rate of treating wounded soldiers.
The military now has super strong alcohol with over 75 degrees, and the level of trauma disinfection is much higher than that of his contemporaries. Military doctor Tian Bu at least knows the principles of bacteria, and can boil bandages and the like in boiling water to further reduce infection. As for the golden sore that stops bleeding,
Li Mengxi didn't understand the medicine, the medicine for golden sores, and there was nothing that could help at all. However, the military doctor Tian Bu could be regarded as a famous medical expert, and his level was definitely higher than the average level in the late Han Dynasty. The medicine for golden sores made by Tian Bu was not top-notch.
But it's not too different.
Combined with various factors, the medical level of the rebel army has surpassed that of other armies of the same era.
If you add in the catgut suture technology that is beyond the times, and the intestinal suturing that is under research, it will be even more unbeatable when looking at the times.
The lower mortality rate of wounded soldiers means fewer casualties, which means more veterans will accumulate, which in disguise improves the elite level of the army.
It happened that in the wounded barracks, Li Mengxi realized that the wounded barracks was his responsibility, but he had neglected the battlefield rescue. Liu Bei and others, as well as the military doctor Tian Bu, had limited knowledge and could not imagine that battlefield rescue was excusable. However, Li Mengxi felt that
, I forgot about this, which I shouldn’t have done.
Looking at himself, Li Mengxi felt that he did not pay enough attention to the medical camp. Thinking of the past, he ran to the craftsman camp all day long but did not go to the wounded soldiers camp a few times. The craftsmen camp was naturally constantly improved, optimized and adjusted, but the wounded soldiers camp was lackluster.
Thinking that there might be more omissions in the wounded soldiers camp, Li Mengxi happened to be free now, so he invited Guan Yu to go with him to see how the military doctors treated the wounded soldiers.
The two of them arrived at the wounded soldiers' camp together. The so-called wounded soldiers' camp had many tents, and the ground was much cleaner and tidier than other places. There were some wounded soldiers and doctors walking around.
The tents in the wounded barracks are also designed to reduce infection. The tent is like a small house. It goes without saying that there is a lot of dust inside and outside the house.
When Li Mengxi and Guan Yu found the military doctor Tian Bu, Tian Bu was wrapping a thick cloth bandage around the abdominal wound of a wounded soldier.
Seeing Tianbu being wrapped around and around, Li Mengxi didn't feel sorry for the silk, and he also felt that there seemed to be something wrong with this bandaging method.
The bandage is wrapped around the abdomen in circles. Not to mention the tediousness, it does not necessarily have to be tightly wrapped. It will definitely become loose and fall down. However, if you wrap it tightly tightly, you can limit the bandage from sliding down. But if you use too much force, it will strangle the wound.
arrive.
Looking at the other injured soldiers in the tent, Li Mengxi saw that the wounded soldiers in the tent, whether they were injured in the legs, arms, or anywhere, were all wrapped with bandages, without exception.
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Not only bandages are used for small wounds, but also for major surgical operations, tapes are also used to stick the bandages to the wounds. This is not only firm and tightly fitting, but also easy to operate without having to wrap it around.
(Medical tape.) Li Mengxi touched his chin, thoughtfully.
Medical tape, as the name suggests, is essentially a tape, a bandage with tape.
Glue, Li Mengxi still thought of using fish glue to paste the bottom of the boat in the carpentry camp. This is the only ancient glue material that Li Mengxi knows so far.
Can medical tape be made from isinglass? Li Mengxi was a little unsure.
First of all, isinglass is very sticky. Once, my brother Xiao Zhuan took a piece of isinglass and played with it while sleeping. Then when he got up the next day, the isinglass was dry and Xiao Bian couldn't open his fingers.
When I opened it, I was so scared that I cried.
The viscosity of isinglass is very good.
There is one thing that Li Mengxi is a little worried about. Isinglass is collagen, a nutrient-rich organic substance. If isinglass is used to make medical tape, will the isinglass easily breed bacteria, which may increase the risk of additional infection in the wound?
Li Mengxi couldn't make up his mind, so he told military doctor Tian Bu about his idea.
Tian Bu looked like he was thinking, he lowered his head and looked at the bandage in his hand that was three fingers long and three fingers long. If the wound was two fingers long, just use a two finger long bandage to apply isinglass on both ends, and then apply it to the wound.
Once the isinglass dries, it will stick firmly.
As for isinglass, it is easy to breed corruption and filth. This is indeed a problem, but it is easy to solve. First, isinglass does not directly contact the wound, and cooked isinglass will not become dirty in a short period of time.
Just change it. Changing the bandage once every three or two days will allow the isinglass bandage to be replaced before it becomes dirty. This replacement frequency is exactly the same as the routine bandage replacement frequency, which just solves the problem of bandage contamination.
Tian Bu told Li Mengxi his idea, and Li Mengxi thought the same thing. As long as he changed it frequently, there would be no problem of bacterial contamination of isinglass. It would be quite safe to change it before it becomes contaminated.
Another new thing has been finalized.
"[Medical tape], the glue is made of isinglass or other glue. The glue is combined with the bandage. It is convenient. When bandaging the wound, you can just stick it and press it. There is no need to wrap the bandage in layers. The tape is strong, not easy to slip off, and light
, does not affect activities, especially for combat soldiers. If a soldier's hand is only slightly injured in a battle, and the military medical bandage is wrapped in several layers on his arm, it will be unwieldy. Even in battle, the arm will be heavy and inconvenient. If the bandage is opened again during the fight,
, this person may die as a result.
With medical tape, a small piece of bandage can cover the entire wound. It is light and does not affect flexibility, and it will not be like a bandage, which will be difficult to fight if it falls apart.
In addition, medical tape can also greatly save fabric waste.
If there is no medical tape, if you have a wound on the abdomen, you need to cut the bandage to the length of three circumferences, wrap it from the front of the abdomen to the back, and tie it several times.
With medical tape, you only need a hand-length bandage, which consumes less than one-tenth of several turns.
Chapter completed!