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SURGICAL EXPERIENCE AT PEARL HARBOR

1942 
The attack on Pearl Harbor began about 7: 50 a. m. on Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941, and shortly thereafter with several civilian surgeons from Honolulu I began operating at a large military hospital. The following is a brief account of some of the major surgical situations encountered in the period between December 7 and January 2: NATURE OF CASUALTIES The casualties were numerous, varied and severe. The majority were the result of bombing or machine gun attack. The embedded foreign bodies were of variable size and depth. Several casualties were of the most unusual type; such, for example, as an arteriovenous aneurysm at the carotid bifurcation. Also a machine gun bullet lodged in the spinal canal at the second lumbar level. The majority of the casualties consisted of multiple lacerated wounds and compound comminuted fractures. Intrathoracic cases did extremely well; but the intra-abdominal group furnished the largest mortality. There were
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