File:4624179642 c873cc04bc bFormationCrise.jpg

English: 05/20/1958; Mass Casualties Course Completed at Walter Reed - A highlight of the week-long course in Management of Mass Casualties completed Saturday, May 17, at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research was a demonstration of wound moulages as a training aid in first aid treatment of wounds. The moulages realistically duplicate almost any type of wound that may occur in armed combat or as a result of a nuclear explosion. As is demonstrated above by Private First Class Carl W. Bohlmeyer, a flow of "blood" to the wound is controlled by pressure on a bulb which spurts the blood through a system of tubes concealed in the clothing of the "victim". Either veinal [venal?] or arterial bleeding can be simulated by the rapidity with which the blood is pumped, and the tubes are placed so that the bleeding can be stopped by normal first aid measures. In major wound moulages, the tubes and be "tied off" in the same manner that a normal artery would be. The moulage kit shown above contains twenty of the simulated wounds, including duplications of radiation burns. Last week's course was attended by military and civilian defense officials from throughout the United States. Credit: Walter Reed Army Medical Center Garrison Directorate of Public Works Archive Walter Reed Army Medical Center, WRAMC