Battlefield medicine (nonfiction)

An illustration showing a variety of wounds from the Feldbuch der Wundarznei (Field manual for the treatment of wounds) by Hans von Gersdorff, (1517); illustration by Hans Wechtlin.

Battlefield medicine, also called field surgery and later combat casualty care, is the treatment of wounded combatants and non-combatants in or near an area of combat.

Civilian medicine has been greatly advanced by procedures that were first developed to treat the wounds inflicted during combat.

With the advent of advanced procedures and medical technology, even polytrauma can be survivable in modern wars.

Battlefield medicine is a category of military medicine.

Fiction cross-reference

• Asclepius Myrmidon

Nonfiction cross-reference

• War (nonfiction)

External links:

• Battlefield medicine @ Wikipedia
• Combat Doctor: Life and Death Stories from Kandahar's Military Hospital
• Long Walk Through War: A Combat Doctor's Diary
• Paradise General: Riding the Surge at a Combat Hospital in Iraq
• When Hell Froze Over: The Memoir of a Korean War Combat Physician Who Spent 1010 Days in a Communist Prison Camp
• Battle Ready: Memoir of a SEAL Warrior Medic
• "Medic": The Mission of an American Military Doctor in Occupied Japan and Wartorn Korea (review)
• With Sabre and Scalpel; The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon