Armistead was hit as well on page 328 he took a bullet to the chest, the minie balls were more accurate because of their grooves and the pointed tip that let it pierce the air allowing it to go farther than a musket ball and much more damage. The bullet would’ve shattered part of the upper half of his rib cage, launching shards of bone with the flatten out bullet hitting Armistead’s lungs. After that he start to suffer from low oxygen then he go unconscious and die from lack of oxygen, or he die from bleeding out from the all tissue and muscle being teared. So the surgeon wouldn't have been able to do anything Armistead was a lost cause and if by some miracle the surgeon did save him the dirty tools that went inside him to take out the bullets
There were plenty of wounds discovered in the bones of Narrabeen man, but the most significant was found in his lumbar vertebra, where what seem to be a spear tip was embedded. By this finding, a statement can be made that the spear (if there were any) passed through his abdomen from the front and the side and cause significant damage to the organs inside.
At the beginning of the story Nolen states, “Frankly I didn’t think that surgery was going to be too damn difficult” (Nolen 146). This shows that even Nolen held the views of surgery portrayed in cinemas. Then through his own experience, he persuades the reader that we’re wrong to hold this view. He informs the reader about the steps of the procedure and complications that may occur during a procedure. He states,
Dr. Tagge, the lead surgeon, finally updated the family over two and a half hours later stating that Lewis did well even though he had to reposition the metal bar four times for correct placement (Kumar, 2008; Monk, 2002). Helen reported wondering if Dr. Tagge had realized how much Lewis’ chest depression had deepened since he last saw him a year ago in the office, especially considering he did not lay eyes on Lewis until he was under anesthesia the day of surgery (Kumar, 2008). In the recovery room, Lewis was conscious and alert with good vital signs, listing his pain as a three out of ten (Monk, 2002). Nurses and doctors in the recovery area charted that he had not produced any urine in his catheter despite intravenous hydration (Kumar, 2008; Monk, 2002). Epidural opioid analgesia was administered post-operatively for pain control, but was supplemented every six hours by intravenous Toradol (Ketorolac) (Kumar, 2008; Solidline Media,
Resection was a process that “involved cutting open the limb, sawing out the damaged bone, and then closing the incision” (Jones, 1). Resection allows the patient to keep his limbs but it requires a great ordeal of time and skill. This also contributed to the common practice of amputation during the war. But there were cases where surgeons did use this method. Terry J. Jones said in his NY Times article, “resections were used more frequently after surgeons learned that amputations had a much higher mortality rate” (Jones, 1). In another article by Corydon Ireland, it describes Mitchell Adam’s, a Harvard lecturer, grandfather who served as a volunteer surgeon during the Civil War. In the article, “Adams was not a champion of hasty amputations, but argued for excision and other limb-saving measures. And he describes the everyday pressures of a country practice in Framingham, Mass” (Ireland, 1). This meant that not all surgeons at the time only wanted to amputate but strived for alternate methods. This new knowledge shows that some surgeons were more dedicated to thinking about the well-being of their patients than others and this opens up to other possibilities that may have occurred during the war. This allows an image to come to mind of a surgeon diligently operating on a soldier with care and compassion. However, even though there may be many possibilities, we can’t truly know every event that occurs during a
Following the defeat of the Confederacy and to lift the morale of a shattered people momentum gathered to enshrine the Myth of the Lost Cause which would transform the Southern soldier living and dead, into a veritable hero.
With advances in weaponry came an increase in deaths and major limb injuries. During WWI the primary action was to amputate the limb rather than try and salvage it. This was due to the little time nurses, surgeons and anaesthetists had with each patient in the field hospitals, because they were overrun by more than double their expected capacity. There-fore, surgeons had to choose which critical patients to treat first, resulting in 41,000 ampu-tees during the First World War, all in need of artificial limbs (Pensions, 1939).
a. Gordon Arnold was standing in the grassy knoll area when he was asked to move over a little. Just as he stepped away he felt a bullet nearly hit his left ear (Hurt 111).
The knowledge we have of surgery in the Civil war is filled with gruesome and haunting experiences soldiers had to face. The surgeons were the onsite hospital staff that carried a wooden case to perform their duties anywhere at any time. This specific case in the __ museum belonged to a gentleman named Dr. W.P. Gunnell who “was educated in the best school of Virginia and graduated in medicine from the University of Pennsylvania. When the war began he was on a visit in the North, and while trying to get back to his home in Virginia he was arrested, and, through discretion, was forced to become a surgeon in a Union army hospital. He served to the best of his ability until he had an opportunity to escape through the lines to the South, and then he enlisted as a surgeon in the Confederate army” (). He experienced both sides of serving in the hospital departments during the Civil War.
On September 18th and the weeks following, a multitude of letters containing the Bacillus Anthracis bacterium were mailed to various New York news stations. Individuals at 5 different stations became ill with similar symptoms that included vomiting and shortness of breath. This began the nationwide panic known as the Amerithrax Investigation. The Amerithrax investigation was said to be the worst biological attacks in all of US History. Three weeks later, on October 9th, two more letters, containing the anthrax bacterium was mailed to two Democratic senators. In all of the 7 attacks, over 22 people developed infections, over half being life-threatening. The letters themselves confused federal investigators. In the sets of letters addressed to the media, certain T’s and A’s were bolded. When added together, the groups of letters formed 3 codons that corresponded to 3 amino acids. These amino acids pointed federal investigators towards a possible culprit, Bruce Edwards Ivins, a scientist for the US government in Frederick, Maryland.
Ryan, E. "A Case of Shell Shock." Canadian Medical Association Journal. 6.12 (1916): 1095-9. Print.
There wasn’t much progress for centuries till World War I. Many soldiers were coming back home with severe injuries on their bodies. Since there were more and more people in need of these surgeries, reconstructive surgery started to develop even further. They came up with new techniques such as trying to rebuild entire limbs, ...
... lobes of both lungs” (473). In layman’s terms, the lungs have been either ruptured from too much expansion or bruised. There is a very high occurrence of these damages due to the amount of explosives the enemy uses against the forces in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Upon hearing David and Betty’s refusal, the man pulled out a gun, and fired a round into the right rear window, shattering it with incredible force. He then moved to the front of the car and fired another round into the left tire. Stricken with panic, David and Betty rushed out of the car, but the man was there to meet them. Betty was able to scramble out, but David wasn’t so lucky, as he was met with the cold, hard barrel of a gun pressing behind his left ear. "The shot made a deafening blast, as the bullet entered David’s head at a horizontal angle, blowing it apart" (Tina 3).
Although a significant number, these amputations were often necessary. Antibiotics had not yet been discovered and infection quickly set in on field wounds. Amputations were far more controlled and thought out than what is now in the public belief. After months at war, it was discovered that amputation within the first 24 hours of injury produced a far lower mortality rate than in the first 48 hours. Furthermore, amputations were only conducted by the most experienced and qualified surgeons. Only one in fifteen surgeons were qualified for amputation, and the procedure was often not taken with ease. William Child, a surgeon with Fifth Regiment of the New Hampshire volunteers, wrote to his wife about the atrocities of the war. He was horrified to see “the poor wounded and mutilated soldiers” and prayed that “God may stop this infernal work.” It is a common misconception that a surgeon would see a line of wounded patients, and with each, rudely amputate limbs. While a huge amount of amputations were performed by both armies, they were most often conducted in a controlled environment, and performed by the most skilled and qualified