. Railway surgery : a handbook on the management of injuries . Fig. 5.—Hospital Car (Plant System, Fla.), looking from the transportation-room intothe operating-room, showing operating-table and other arrangements ; also showsthe passageway to the opposite end of the Fig. 6.—Hospital Car, looking from the operating-room into the transportation,room, showing beds made up ready for occupancy. HOSPITAL CAR. 17 and two or more swinging shelves and stands, all ca-pable of being fastened to the floor, complete the furni-ture. A wide door should lead from this into the re-mainder of the car, wh
. Railway surgery : a handbook on the management of injuries . Fig. 5.—Hospital Car (Plant System, Fla.), looking from the transportation-room intothe operating-room, showing operating-table and other arrangements ; also showsthe passageway to the opposite end of the Fig. 6.—Hospital Car, looking from the operating-room into the transportation,room, showing beds made up ready for occupancy. HOSPITAL CAR. 17 and two or more swinging shelves and stands, all ca-pable of being fastened to the floor, complete the furni-ture. A wide door should lead from this into the re-mainder of the car, which at the full width constitutesthe transportation-room, with wide doors on each sideopening out of the car. Within this room should beplaced a stretcher swung by suitably arranged elasticsprings from the ceiling, with stays to prevent too greatmotion, and several cots made up with blankets (seeFig. 6). Upon reaching the scene of the accident, this car isside-tracked, the injured man taken into the transportation-room, and his soiled clothing removed. Then he is takeninto the operating-room, the hemorrhage checked, all irri-tating and shock-producing dangling members are re-moved, and stimulants and anodynes administered. On being taken from such a car to a hosp
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