Nurses in a mash unit4/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The Korean War played a great role in defining MASH units. This thought process has since rolled over to the modern technique of triage in ERs nationwide. MASH units typically followed the saying, 'life takes precedence over limb, function over anatomical defects', a phrase which essentially means that they had to repair the most serious defect first. ![]() This time, nurses and doctors would work to prioritize who needed to be taken into surgery first if it appeared that the soldier wouldn't survive much longer without surgery they were prioritized. The soldiers that needed further treatment were the transferred to the MASH units and underwent triage once more. ![]() Those who worked in the stations, be they nurses or medical officers, used the system to determine which soldiers needed further care/treatment and which soldiers could go back onto the battlefield. Triage was first performed on the soldiers at battalion aid stations. The battles left many casualties, and therefore there were more patients arriving at the MASH hospitals. World War I and World War II saw the introduction of weapons, such as poison gas, that could wipe out everyone. While the concept of triage had been used years before the Korean War, it wasn't until the MASH units during the war put it into real practice that the idea was fully developed. ![]()
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