47th Combat Support Hospital, 2000

A field hospital is a large mobile medical unit that temporarily takes care of casualties on-site before they can be safely transported to more permanent hospital facilities. They would stay about two miles behind the first line of soldiers. The concept was inherited from the battlefield (such urban environment, the field hospital is often established in an easily accessible and highly visible building (e. g. restaurant, school, etc. A restaurant is a retail establishment that serves prepared Food to Customers. A school (from Greek σχολεῖον - scholeion) is an Institution designed to allow and encourage Students (or "pupils" ). In case of an airborne structure, the mobile medical kit is often placed in normalized container; the container itself is then used as shelter.

Field hospitals were originally called ambulances. An ambulance is a Vehicle for transporting sick or injured people to from or between places of treatment for an Illness or Injury.

See also

• Norman Bethune
• Military medicine
• Hospital ship

• Field hospitals (France)

United States

• CSH
• MASH
• PSH
• Battalion Aid Station
• Regimental Aid Post

External links

• The Journey, by surgeon E. T. Rulison, Jr., M.D., F.A.C.S., firsthand account and photographs of the 51st Evacuation Hospital during World War II
• The Nurses of the 51st Evac Hospital In WWII, by nurse First Lieutenant Tillie (Horath) Kehrer, firsthand account and photographs of the 51st Evacuation Hospital during World War II
• http://www.pklhealthcare.co.uk/field_hospitals.asp Supplier of field hospitals to the US Army
• Utilis SAS, Designer and Supplier of field hospitals

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