STRESS AND COPING WITH TRAUMA OF WAR IN THE PERSIAN GULF

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Subject: STRESS AND COPING WITH TRAUMA OF WAR IN THE PERSIAN GULF        

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Folder Title: USNS COMFORT TAH 20 MEDICAL ARTICLES 1991 1992                                                  

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              volunteer Red Cross nurses and carps for union forces during

              the Civil War. (Mateczun, in press)

                   Psychiatrists have deployed with hospital ships for at

              least the last fifty years. A psychiatrist was aboard the

              hospital ship, TJSNS Solace in Pearl Harbor on December

              7,1941, and cared for both medical and psychiatric

              casualties. By the end of World War II, there were 12

              hospital ships in the U.S. Navy and many of these had

              psychiatrists aboard. During the Viet Nam Conflict, two

              500 bed hospital ships were kept busy providing care and

              respite for the forces ashore. These ships each had one

              psychiatrist and 48 dedicated psychiatric beds. Between

              1973 and 1986, however, the Navy had no hospital ships. In

              1986, funds were approved for two new hospital ships, the

              USNS Mercy and the USNS Comfort.

                   These identical ships began as San Clemente class

              tankers. Refitted as enormous floating hospital shipse the

              ships measure 894 feet long and displace nearly 70,000 tons.

              Each ship has 12 operating rooms and a capacity of 1000

              beds, which include 80 for intensive care, 20 for recovery,

              280 for intermediate care, 120 for light care and 500 for

              limited care. when fully staffed, each ship has a crew of
              1200 and functions as a small independent city. (Pentzien et,

              al., in press)






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