medical corps
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Paramedics of the Malteser Aid Service on duty for the medical service of the High Cathedral in Cologne during the Corpus Christi procession in 2020
Medical service (also called medical or medical services ; military abbreviated SanD ; from Latin sanitas , health ) is the name for the services of paramedics who take on the emergency medical care of the injured or wounded, and various public tasks in disaster / civil protection , hygiene and Something similar that may require immediate action.
General
- Medical service (disaster control) : a specialist service for dealing with major incidents with a large number of injuries or in the event of a disaster
- Medical service of the police : Occupational medical service of the police, emergency medical care in police (dangerous) situations and at events or courses of the police
- Company medical service : organized first aid and in some cases also occupational medical service in companies
- Demosanity services at political gatherings
- Medical security service: planned medical care for participants and visitors at events
- School medical service : first aid in schools
- Military medical service : military units that are entrusted with the medical services of the armed forces
National
Germany:
- for the German Bundeswehr:
- Central medical service of the Bundeswehr : an organizational area in the German Bundeswehr
- Medical Service Army : a type of service in the German Army
- Marines Medical Service
- Reserve hospital organization
- Air protection medical service (historical): a specialist service of the former air protection auxiliary service
- Medical services (KZ) (in National Socialist concentration camps)
Austria:
United Kingdom:
United States:
literature
- Helmut Busse: Soldiers without weapons. On the history of the medical system. Berg am See 1990.
- Jens Diem, Thomas Harbaum: The medical service in action (1960 to today) - requirements for concepts and modern supply structures. In: Christian Willy (Ed.): Worldwide in action - the medical service of the Bundeswehr 2010. Mission - Spectrum - Opportunities. Beta-Verlag, Bonn 2009, ISBN 978-3-927603-91-2 , pp. 18-27.
- Ludger Tewes : Red Cross Sisters. Your use in the mobile medical service of the Wehrmacht 1939-1945 , Verlag Schöningh Paderborn 2016, ISBN 978-3-506-78257-1 .
- Ralf Vollmuth : Lost in the no man's land in the history of science. The history of the medical service as a desideratum of research. In: Military medicine and military pharmacy. 2012, issue 3, pp. 49–51.