![]() ![]() ![]() Medics perform first aid and take him from the battlefield to the battalion aid station, where he’s stabilized. In the battle for Troina, Sicily in early August 1943, Hawkins is shot in the abdomen. Let’s follow my fictional patient, Private Hawkins. I enjoyed following the development of air evacuation in my Wings of the Nightingale series, which featured three flight nurses based in the Mediterranean. 55 (Wings of the Nightingale #2)īefore World War II, medical air evacuation was little but theory-by the end of the war, it was recognized as vital to patient care. He was going into shock, probably from postsurgical internal bleeding. She wrapped her hand around his wrist to measure his pulse-rapid as she feared. “Thirsty.” He rubbed his throat with white fingers. Georgie leaned closer, her mind tingling with concern. Georgie Taylor smiled at Private Hawkins, who was recovering from abdominal surgery due to a rifle wound. ![]()
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