Abstract
The difficulties which beset the study of shock in wartime are obvious. Casualties, when they occur, are apt to be in overwhelming numbers, and the available clinical staff to deal with the cases is so overworked with urgent therapeutic procedures that adequate recording and study may be impossible. For this reason clinical data on shock are infinitely more scanty than reports on animal experimentation. In this school and hospital some 200 wounded patients were admitted during the London air raid period; of these, 28 had injuries of such severity as to require blood transfusion. In spite of considerable reduction of staff, circumstances were thus reasonably favorable for simple clinical observations and records to be made. It is on the basis of this experience that the opinions expressed in this paper are put forward. When the present conflict began, views generally held of the nature of traumatic shock were those which
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