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A field hospital is a large mobile medical unit that temporarily takes care of casualties on-site before they can be safely transported to more permanent hospital facilities. The concept was inherited from the battlefield (such urban environment, the field hospital is often established in an easily accessible and highly visible building (e.g.






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A field hospital is a large mobile medical unit that temporarily takes care of casualties on-site before they can be safely transported to more permanent hospital facilities. The concept was inherited from the battlefield (such urban environment, the field hospital is often established in an easily accessible and highly visible building (e.g. restaurant
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, etc.). In case of an airborne structure, the mobile medical kit is often placed in normalized container; the container itself is then used as shelter.

Field hospitals were originally called ambulances
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  • Field hospitals (France)
    Field hospitals (France)

    Field hospitals in France are managed by the SAMU In France, there are two types mobile medical kits used:* the level one mobile medical kit : it can handle 25 heavy casualties on any type of ground; it is made of about 400 kg of equipment and drugs placed in 10 tanks, with also logistic equipment ; there are 42 PSM1 in France;...


United States
  • CSH
    Combat support hospital

    A Combat Support Hospital is a type of field hospital. The CSH is a United States military mobile hospital delivered to the Corps Support Area in standard military-owned Demountable Containers cargo containers and assembled by the staff into a tent hospital to treat wounded soldiers....
  • MASH
    Mobile Army Surgical Hospital

    The Mobile Army Surgical Hospital refers to a United States Army medical unit serving as a fully functional hospital in a combat area of operations....
  • PSH
    Portable Surgical Hospital

    Portable Surgical Hospitals were a type of field hospital. The PSH were units of the United States Army Medical Corps designed to be man-portable by the team manning the hospital....
  • Battalion Aid Station
  • Regimental Aid Post
    Regimental Aid Post

    A Regimental Aid Post is the equivalent to the American Battalion Aid Station. In the British Army, Canadian Forces and other Commonwealth militaries, the RAP is a front line military medical establishment incorporated into an infantry battalion or armoured regiment and designed for the immediate treatment and triage of battlefield casualtie...


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  • , firsthand account and photographs of the 51st Evacuation Hospital during World War II
  • , firsthand account and photographs of the 51st Evacuation Hospital during World War II
  • Supplier of field hospitals to the US Army
  • , Designer and Supplier of field hospitals
  • SMU's contain , including .