Modern military medicine

-War and medicine

Introduction With the rapid development of high technology, high-tech equipment has been used more and more in modern wars, but at the same time, high-tech wars have also brought new problems to military reserves. Under the comprehensive attack of high-tech weapons, the war casualties in military war have new characteristics: wide wound area, complex wound, multiple injuries, easy infection, difficult to treat and so on. This led to a sharp increase in non-combatants on the battlefield, and most of the wounded appeared in concentrated time. Therefore, modern military medicine should be reformed with the changes of the times and the development of science and technology to adapt to modern wars.

First, the development history of military medicine

China has a long history of treating the wounded in the battle between officers and men. After long-term exploration and practice, military medicine rose to a scientific point of view in the19th century. Several wars broke out in modern times, and the reform of modern army played an important role in promoting the development of multi-military medicine. The development of military medicine promoted the development of traditional medicine. On-the-job medicine needs to keep pace with the times, so the hospital has developed into a comprehensive place integrating treatment, prevention, scientific research and teaching, and medical colleges have emerged as the times require, which has eased the pressure on the hospital and trained excellent medical talents. On the military side, the reduction of conventional operations and the emergence of new weapons have greatly changed the injuries of the wounded. For example, the accelerated firing of guns and bullets deepens wounds and enhances penetration. The use of incendiary bombs has increased the wound area, and the use of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons has caused irreparable disasters to the human body and even the ecology. Therefore, it is necessary to train specialized medical talents in the army, vigorously study the pathology and surgery of war wounds, ensure the effective strength of the army on the battlefield, and minimize the failure mortality rate on the battlefield. Second, the medical development in the war

War and medicine are opposites, but it is also war that promotes the development of medicine. During the Korean War, American military doctors found failed kidneys in the dead soldiers and found a solution to the problem, which led to the current hemodialysis and prolonged the lives of patients with renal failure. Moreover, American military doctors made great discoveries in the history of medicine during the Vietnam War, and American medicine made a leap forward.

In modern times, the U.S. military's easy victory in the Gulf War not only greatly improved high-tech weapons and tactics, but also made a complete preparation plan for backup medical care. It is estimated that there are 35,000 wounded, but there are more than 46,000 US medical personnel. On average, 10 of every 1 0 American soldiers are medical personnel, and each combat battalion has a highly mobile ambulance station, which can move at will 800 meters away from the battlefield, and soldiers can be effectively rescued within 30 minutes after being injured. The use of medical ships and airlifted hospitals has reduced the casualty rate of the US military to an all-time low.

The formation of modern war medicine is to cope with the war. With the rapid reform and development of military medicine, the health status of soldiers has been substantially improved, and the survival rate and adaptability of soldiers in different places have been improved. It has become another highlight of the Gulf War.

Third, the influence of modern war on medicine.

The development of science and technology is triggering a new military revolution, which makes military medicine face more severe challenges. High-tech weapons are gradually being used in military wars, and their range, lethality and subsequent influence are incomparable to traditional wars. In particular, nuclear weapons, penetrating chemical warfare agents, biochemical toxin warfare agents, infectious virus warfare agents and genetic weapons are used in war.

Unforgettable Gulf War, although the US military has made remarkable achievements in battlefield medical care, after the Gulf War, many American soldiers who participated in the war developed symptoms such as insomnia, fatigue, dizziness, joint and muscle pain, nausea, swollen lymph nodes and fever, and the reasons are still unknown. However, compared with before the war, the probability of children suffering from leukemia, cancer incidence, cancer mortality and reproductive malformation increased by three times. During the war, the US military dropped about 300 tons of depleted uranium bombs, which caused great harm to local people, and the half-life of radioactive element depleted uranium was as long as 1 100 million years, thus causing permanent pollution to the environment and ecology in the Gulf region.

In addition, incendiary bombs and electromagnetic radiation are gradually applied in modern wars. Therefore, modern military medicine should not only be aimed at human medicine, but also be applied to weapons when medicine is not only used to save people. This has probably become a hot issue that the whole world is paying attention to. We don't want to see war, but as unique medical workers in the future, we still have a hopeful dream, that is, to effectively treat the wounds caused by war. Nuclear, biochemical and special weapons and their destructive destruction have become a new challenge for contemporary military medicine.

Fourthly, the role and development of military medicine in future wars.

In the future, it is difficult to have large-scale wars like World War I and World War II, and the mode of operations will tend to be local wars, and its battlefield will also develop in a diversified way. Therefore, military medicine will develop like special medicine in the future.

With the constant change of the battlefield, medical personnel must use the best medical plan in complex and changeable environments, such as cities, grasslands, deserts, tropical and even tropical rainforests, subtropical jungles and other comprehensive areas that are unfavorable to us. In some special operations, such as long-distance raids and lurking. When medicines and other medical instruments are inconvenient to carry, the improvement of medicines and simplification of instruments will be the development direction of military medicine in the future.

Moreover, in the future military medicine, we should not only pay attention to the development of medical standards and medical instruments, but also improve the requirements for the comprehensive quality of doctors and medical personnel to meet the needs of future military development. The existence of doctors in team combat will undoubtedly increase the survival rate of team members and improve the success rate of tasks. However, if the team doctor's ability is insufficient, it will become a weakness and pose a great threat.

At present, the complicated international environment, the situation around China and international emergencies make it necessary to develop special weapons and rocket propellant specific drugs for injuries. Moreover, it is of great significance for all kinds of emergency plans of military medicine in the future to vigorously carry out scientific research on the characteristics and emergency treatment of modern high-level competitions, establish animal models related to injury types and study special drugs.

To sum up, local wars under high-tech conditions will be the basic form of future wars. However, high-tech weapons operations bring many thorny problems to battlefield logistics support and medical rescue, making battlefield rescue difficult and dangerous. Therefore, in order to meet the needs of modern military warfare, maintain our invincible position and ensure our army's effective strength, we should seriously explore the laws of high-tech warfare and formulate analysis, integration and response plans according to some obvious characteristics. To study the medical support under the condition of high technology, and to deal with the harm caused by modern war with the rapid development of medicine. Due to the inevitability of international conflicts, the humanitarian spirit, the active advocacy of the International Red Cross and the neutrality of medical institutions established by the Geneva Convention, the future development of military medicine will develop rapidly in a relatively peaceful environment, so as to play a role in repairing the damage caused by the post-war war war.