J.M.T. Finney, MD, FACS, and AEF Base Hospital No. 18 in WWI

[摘要] Base hospitals were the third level of care after frontline mobile units and evacuation hospitals. At the base hospitals, operations of all kinds were performed, and patients were kept until they were ready for discharge or transfer to port hospitals for transport home. Staff from the base hospitals were frequently posted temporarily to units closer to the front. Ultimately, 120 base hospitals were established, 49 of them affiliated hospitals organized and staffed by volunteers from U.S. hospitals and medical schools. For transportation reasons, base hospitals were eventually grouped into hospital centers.

[学科分类] 外科医学