The significance of the Western Front for experiments in surgery and medicine

12 questions

1. A wound that has been ___ has been cleaned and covered to protect it.
2. Where was a triage system normally used?
3. Which location was most likely to have permanent access to X-ray machines?
4. How many patients could be accommodated in total across all British Base Hospitals by the end of the war in 1918?
5. Where were the most severely wounded patients sent to in CCSs?
6. Where on the Western Front was an underground hospital built?
7. In the Carrel-Dakin method, a sodium hypochlorite solution was used for the ___ of wounds.
8. Match each medical experiment with its intended purpose.
9. What was the survival rate for soldiers with fractured femurs before the Thomas Splint was introduced?
10. How many mobile X-ray units were available on the British sector of the Western Front by the end of the war?
11. When was stored blood first used for blood transfusions?
12. Which antiseptic was able to destroy the microbes responsible for gas gangrene infections?

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