Medical Innovations of World War II During World War II, as the men went off to the battles, women stayed and made many advancements in technologies, weapons, and also health care. Health care changed significantly during the war and changed the history of medicine forever. There were changes in nursing, blood research, and findings of needed vaccinations to help wounded soldiers. During the war, the fascination of medical breakthroughs was a big point of interest; many doctors and researchers experimented to learn more about the human body. Many experiments changed the study of medicine forever such as experiments on injured soldiers; these practices and the need for medicine during the war caused new innovations and a new approach to medicine. …show more content…
They found many new chemicals and compounds to help the soldiers such as Sulfanilamide. Sulfanilamide was given to soldiers to sprinkle on wounds to help prevent infections. There was a great demand for antibacterial medicine, Alexander Fleming began his work on finding an antibacterial solution in World War I and by World War II he discovered Penisillin. Penisillin is known to be the most active and safe antibacterial available, even today. Penisillin was produced in mass quantities to help with United State’s war efforts and was shipped and used on D-Day and also for the rest of the war. Morphine was used as a painkiller during WWII as a `painkiller. Researchers used morphine on wounded soldiers to reduce pain, they learned through experiments and results that too much opium from the morphine could prove to be addictive, so medics developed a way to administer the right amount of morphine to the soldiers. Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) was another injection that was introduced in WWII, which helped keep mosquitoes away leading to the prevention of malaria and its …show more content…
Their roles were critical, they worked close to the battle lines to help the wounded soldiers quicker. New inventions also made medical procedures easier. Many times soldiers had wounds that were too severe to treat, so surgery and amputations were very common. Jean Petit invented the first screw tourniquet, which made leg amputations possible. Tourniquets were misused a lot and by the mistakes made, doctors learned better ways of using them. The need for surgeons and caregivers brought us to the age of hospitals, nurses and ambulances. As medicine was advancing, so was technology, during WWII the first aerial medical evacuation flight was made. It used to be considered as being dangerous but as technology advanced it became safer. The AP-51 mustang aircraft was used to transport