Canadian War Museum
1 Vimy Place
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0M8
Tel. (819) 776-8600
toll-free 1-800-555-5621
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The Story of the Canadian Forces Health Services
Virtual Tour
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Critical
Care: On the Battlefield
The battlefield has always been a place of carnage
and death. But it has also been a place of survival, a race between the
power of weapons to take lives and the resourcefulness and courage of those
who would save them.
In each of Canada's major wars, Canadian Army medical personnel
struggled to save lives against the destructive power of modern weapons.
Employing the latest scientific, medical, and technological breakthroughs
to fix and to heal those injured in war, they administered critical care
on the battlefield and evacuated the wounded as early as possible to safer,
better-equipped hospitals farther from the fighting. Immediate treatment
and early evacuation remain as essential to a wounded soldier's survival
today as they were in the First or Second World War or in Korea.
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