Operating room goes to battle in tank-towed armored trailer
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Operating room goes to battle in tank-towed armored trailer
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Title: Operating room goes to battle in tank-towed armored trailer
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T= into battle by a war tank, an
armored operating room for front-line
casualties has been designed by C. J. Birt-
cher, a Los Angeles, Calif.,, manufacturer
of surgical instruments. Emplacements cut
in a hillside by bulldozers would hide such
trailers from enemy view. Each one meas- .
ures 35 feet long, is gasproof, contains com-
plete surgical equipment, and has steel
walls capable of withstanding machine-gun
bullets and shell fragments. Within, a two-
man surgical team could handle as many
as 30 cases an hour, safe against anything
but a direct hit by bomb or shell. Similarly
armored vehicles, of 16-man capacity, would
bring in the casualties. As each arrives, he
is placed on an “incoming” bed, anesthe-
tized, and transferred to a hydraulic operat-
ing table. Following surgery, he is trans-
ferred to an “outgoing” bed to await trans-
portation to a hospital in the rear by
armored ambulances.
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Language (Dublin Core)
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Eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1941-10
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80
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Public domain
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Sami Akbiyik
Popular Science Monthly, v. 139, n. 4, 1941
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