Canadian Forces Medical Service - 18 Field Ambulance, 12 Field Ambulance, 1 Field Ambulance, 16 Field Ambulance, 25 Field Ambulance (Paperback)

Chapters: 18 Field Ambulance, 12 Field Ambulance, 1 Field Ambulance, 16 Field Ambulance, 25 Field Ambulance, 15 Field Ambulance. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 32. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Primary Reserve 18 Field Ambulance is one of the 16 Canadian Forces Medical Service (CFMS) reserve medical units. Situated in Thunder Bay, Ontario, 18 Field Ambulance has a proud reputation among the Canadian Forces. Assigned as Medical unit for 6th Canadian Infantry Brigade and provided their medical needs at the following battles. During World War II, 18 Field Ambulance was assigned as Medical unit for the 1st Infantry Brigade (Royal Canadian Regiment, Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment, 48th Highlanders) and provided their medical needs at the following battles. Medical staff, who were involved early in the planning of the invasion of Italy, developed a plan to evacuate casualties back to the landing beaches where additional clearing stations and field surgical units, as well as special beach medical sections would be located. These would be available for the care of the casualties until they could be evacuated by landing craft to Sicily itself or to nearby hospital ships. The units which would put this plan into effect included a field ambulance accompanying each brigade, two field surgical units, a field dressing station and a field transfusion unit. Their role was to set up an advanced surgical center near the advanced dressing station in Reggio. All of the remaining divisional medical resources were to have crossed to Italy by D-Day +7. In addition, plans were made for landing strips to be made available and prioritization of those casualties who might require air transport. Malaria treatment and prophylaxis was a high priority and many proposals were put forth to reduce the i...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1131735