Frag Out! Magazine

MEDic!!! The individual firsT aid dressings have raTher a rich hisTory. The drawings which presenT scenes wiTh an applicaTion of dressings can be found already in The arT of ancienT greece daTed To 500 bc, buT cerTainly This Technique was known much more earlier. TogeTher wiTh a miliTary medicine, a developmenT medical devices for arresTing hemorrhages became a necessiTy. every reasonably Thinking man who carried weapon during a war, regardless a banner under which he marched, always had wiTh him someThing whaT can be used in The firsT momenT afTer an injury. a neckerchief – an aTTribuTe of working class - was becoming a TourniqueT, a coTTon handkerchief (Today iT is hard To geT Them – They were superseded by disposal paper handkerchiefs) was a subsTiTuTe of an individual dressing, or respecTively a bandage, applied on The cuT wounds, infernal scraTching and mainTained up To The momenT of addressing Them by a camp paramedic or a physician in The field lazareT. As a modern tactics develops and a technological progress in relation to an armament succeeded one can also observe significant changes in the combat field medicine – an evacuation of wounded persons from the danger zone, field hospitals, a presence of paramedics who conduct lifesaving operations (addressing hemorrhages, anti-shock actions), etc. The modifications, and rather this significant ones, were also introduced in relation to the medical equipment, which perfect example are individual dressings. Initially they comprised a suspensory dressing (bandage) and a pad to cover a wound, however changes in the manner of conducting combat operations, used armor, as well as a development of medical know-how (in particular with regard to preventing deaths) enforced an evolution of this – seemingly – trivial in terms of design medical equipment. It appeared the first integrated dressings in which a cotton material was machine stitched

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