RT Book, Section
A1 Iserson, Kenneth V.
SR Print(0)
ID 1124428911
T1 Surgical Equipment
T2 Improvised Medicine: Providing Care in Extreme Environments, 2e
YR 2016
FD 2016
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071847629
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1124428911
RD 2024/04/25
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