Huddleston summoned Benjamin Rycroft 14 from Musgrave Park to assess the burned eyelids. Rosenheim, recalled from the Massachusetts General Hospital to supervise Northern Ireland military medicine, had previously formed the highest opinion of Matron Mabel Huddleston and staff 12, 13. John Dickson’s blood loss was corrected and his limb burns placed in Bunyan bags containing tepid 2% saline. Max Rosenheim, later Lord Rosenheim, PRCP, gave instructions for immediate intravenous resuscitation, 24 hour saline baths at 102-105° for Des O’Connell, and Fred Redhead. 2) ( Fig.3).īy 7:00 AM on 27 th April 1941 the crew of Whitley Z6501 were all admitted to Roe Valley Hospital, Limavady 2. The local priest said he found it almost impossible to find annointable flesh on Des O’Connell except at the midriff 5 ( Fig. Five months after the RSM concordat, Max Rosenheim 10 and Roe Valley Hospital Matron Mabel Huddlestone 11 and their team so treated Des O’Connell and John Dickson. An accompanying Lancet editorial fully endorsed the views of Archibald McIndoe and Sir Harold Gillies and added that a Bunyan bag was an oiled-silk envelope which could encase the limb 9. The patient could be totally immersed and usually found after the first bath that pain was relieved.” Sir Harold Gillies “thought that saline treatment was improved by the Bunyan bag. McIndoe continued “he was getting good results by treatment with saline baths at 105☏.

The raw surface of a third degree burn must be covered by a skin graft. There must be no coagulation of third degree burns. Coagulation, especially by tannic acid, had been carried too far 8, 9. The aim of “the treatment of burns was to save life and preserve function” 7. On November 6 th, 1940, after their experience of treating RAF pilots in the Battle of Britain 6, Archibald McIndoe and Sir Harold Gillies had spoken to the Royal Society of Medicine.

The treatment of the aircrew’s burns had been recently updated.

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