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Old 09-15-2011, 07:31 PM
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Default Military Medical Care in T2K

In recent years, survivability rates for wounded soldiers (in first-world armies) have gone way up. I can't remember the figures, but a soldier wounded in 2011 has a much better chance of surviving his wounds than a soldier wounded in Vietnam during the late '60s who, in turn, had a better chance of making it than a soldier wounded during WWII and so on...

I wonder how much this rate would dip in the later years of the Twilight War. By the Battle of Kalisz, I assume that a lot of the more advanced pharmaceuticals (anesthesia, antibiotics) and skilled trauma doctors would have been used up, with no hope of adequate replacement.

How much of the basics of military medical care would still be available in 2000? How much morphine? How many antibiotics? How much blood plasma? Could post-exchange industries continue to produce these modern essentials? If so, at what rate? If not, what are the practical substitutes?

What kind of treatment could a wounded soldier in 2000 hope to receive? There are no more air-evacs, many fewer trained combat surgeons, etc. Do the chances of surviving a bullet wound diminish to WWII levels (at the best)? Is it worse than that? Would a simple bullet wound to a limb in 2000 result in an amputation and a 50% chance of gangrene and death? Am I being too pessimistic?

I'd like to discuss these and related questions here.
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