The first artificial kidney machine to be brought into a combat zone was used to treat kidney failure in cases of severe shock, and on patients with hemorrhagic fever-an infectious disease later shown to be caused by a virus carried by small rodents.Īs in other wars, the climate presented medical challenges. Researchers studied wound infection, dehydration, and kidney problems, and a team of highly trained vascular surgeons instructed less specialized MASH doctors in new ways of repairing arterial wounds, reducing the need for amputation. The 8209th MASH, pictured here, was the home of an Army medical department clinical research program-formal recognition of war’s role as a laboratory of science. At first Korea’s MASH units moved with the Army as the war settled down, they tended to remain stationary. Korea’s MASH units were adaptations of systems devised in World Wars I and II, in which surgical teams were sent forward to clearing stations to stabilize the condition of severely wounded men before sending them to the rear for definitive care. DOCTORS OPERATE on a wounded soldier at a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital.
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