Open AccessArmy medicine during the First World War
Author(s) -
Г. Н. Шапошников,
В. В. Запарий
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
zdravoohranenie rossijskoj federacii
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2412-0723
pISSN - 0044-197X
DOI - 10.47470/0044-197x-2021-65-2-172-178
Subject(s) - military medicine , medical evacuation , world war ii , medical care , first world war , political science , medical services , military personnel , scale (ratio) , military health , health care , military science , medicine , law , history , medical emergency , geography , ancient history , nursing , cartography
The article explains the development and functioning of an essential military component - medical support wartime - evacuation system. Describes the concept of conservative evacuation, developed in the Russian army at the beginning of the last century, shows the military medical services’ efforts to expand military health care and improve the system of evacuation during World War I. It is noted that, despite significant efforts, the evacua-tion remained the weakest part of Russian military medicine and does not reflect the scale of sanitary losses.