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Tue 30 Aug, 2016 02:38 am
I'm writing a screenplay and, although I'm finding bits of information online, it's not quite what I'm looking for. Say, if a few soldiers and a medic were separated from the battalion in a forest and one of them was shot in the leg, how would the medic deal with this? What drugs would he use, how long would this take, would the bullet be taken out, when would the medic do these things (immediately after?) etc. Would the soldier do anything before the medic? Thanks
@adamsingleton,
I'm mainly bumping your information.
I know penicillin and sulfa drugs both existed by then so it's possible a medic would have either, maybe both. If you need for the medic to not have either, you can always write that he ran out while treating others, or he dropped his pack and was unable to retrieve it due to incoming enemy fire.
@adamsingleton,
There are some movies that show medics field dressing wounds. The scene in Saving Private Ryan, where the medic tries to save a soldier from grenade wounds. There are lots of Youtube videos on treating gunshot wounds.
In the German Wehrmacht this was regulated in the "Merkblatt 53/14. Behandlung von Gliedmaßenschüssen" 1941, 1942. [Notices about dealing with gun shots at extremities] as well as the "Merkblatt 53d/63, Richtlinien für die Versorgung Verwundeter in den vorderen Sanitäts-Einrichtungen" (1943) [Rules/guideline about the treatment of wounded by medics/doctors on the frontline]
My late father was a (German) medic on the Russian front 1941/42 (and a surgeon lieutenant in March 1945). During the time in Russia, amputation was done very often.
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