Navigation and history of science: Day of infamy. Sanitary assistance during the attack on Pearl Harbor
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Attack on Pearl Harbor, sanitary assistance, rescue, naval medicineAbstract
In the context of World War II (1939-1945), the attack on Pearl Harbor was carried out by the Japanese Imperial Navy against the United States naval base in Pearl Harbor (Hawaii). It happened on the morning of Sunday, December 7, 1941.
US Navy medicine was represented at Pearl Harbor by a Naval Hospital, a partially assembled mobile hospital and the USS Solace (AH-5), the Navy's most modern hospital ship. Burns, compound fractures, flesh wounds (gunshots, shell, and shrapnel), and penetrating abdominal wounds were the most frequent problems. Sixty percent of all casualties at Pearl Harbor were burn cases caused by burning fuel oil and/or flash burns. Most burns were extensive (up to 80 percent), and mainly first and second degree. Nineteen neuropsychiatric (shell shock) cases were reported at Naval Hospital Pearl Harbor.
This article tries to offer an overview of the heroic health care carried out in those conditions of surprise and horror.
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