TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Surgical Equipment A1 - Iserson, Kenneth V. PY - 2016 T2 - Improvised Medicine: Providing Care in Extreme Environments, 2e AB - In austere situations, surgical instruments may need to be manufactured. Physician prisoners of war (POW) in World War II camps made surgical appliances from scrap materials using common items, including forks and spoons. With these rudimentary instruments, they performed thousands of successful operations.1,2 SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/29 UR - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1124428911 ER -