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Military Concepts and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) in Portugal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

F.F. Rocha Da Silva
F.F. Rocha Da Silva
Affiliation:
Cabinet for Emergency Medicine, Ministerio dos Assuntos Sociais, Rua Infante D. Pedro, 8, Lisbon-Codex, Portugal.
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Extract

Wars have contributed to the progress of emergency medicine. Napoleon's surgeon Larrey introduced a new era in surgical skills. During World War I, blood transfusions and anesthesia were introduced, and during World War II, penicillin. Neither in war nor in civilian disasters can one predict the number of casualties. Thus planning should be similar.

Type
Section Three—Military Contributions to Disaster Medicine
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 1 , Issue 1: Military and Disaster Medicine , Spring 1985 , pp. 25
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1985

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