{"id":2409,"date":"2020-06-02T10:00:17","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T09:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/?p=2409"},"modified":"2020-10-20T22:55:16","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T21:55:16","slug":"easing-pain-on-the-western-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/2020\/06\/02\/easing-pain-on-the-western-front\/","title":{"rendered":"Easing Pain on the Western Front"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Book Review by Dr. Richard M. Prior\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Paul Stepansky. <em>Easing Pain on the Western Front<\/em>.\u00a0 McFarland &amp; Company 2020 (paperback version), 232 pages.\u00a0 ISBN 978-1-4766-9001-9.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2410\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2410\" style=\"width: 384px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2410\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/files\/2020\/05\/Prior-Richard-M-Easing-Pain-on-the-Western-Front.jpg\" alt=\"Easing Pain on the Western Front\" width=\"384\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/files\/2020\/05\/Prior-Richard-M-Easing-Pain-on-the-Western-Front.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/files\/2020\/05\/Prior-Richard-M-Easing-Pain-on-the-Western-Front-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2410\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Easing Pain on the Western Front<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Paul Stepansky\u2019s\u00a0<em>Easing Pain on the Western Front<\/em>\u00a0provides a very new and unique insight into the experience of U.S. Army nurses providing direct care on the battlefields of the Western Front in the Great War.\u00a0 In addition to caring for the trauma patients most commonly associated with wartime hospitalization, these nurses faced a nearly endless series of additional challenges that included caring for those who suffered from being gassed, those afflicted with \u201cshell shock,\u201d and thousands of patients ill due to the Spanish Flu pandemic.\u00a0 Throughout the book, Stepansky explains how nursing\u2019s scope of practice expands during wartime, but largely reverts to its previous form afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>The nurses of World War I were women only.\u00a0 As such, they couldn\u2019t be drafted, and had to be recruited and volunteer for service.\u00a0 Stepansky illustrates how these women viewed the prospect of war as an adventure and a character-building experience that quickly transitioned into a struggle to function in an environment with never ending trials. Despite the personal challenges the nurses experienced due to endless streams of horrifically wounded soldiers, long hours, and fatigue, the nurses continued in their mission of providing the highest quality of care and easing the suffering of the afflicted soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>From the onset, Stepansky provides detailed descriptions of how the scope of nursing practice expanded during war, as nurses found themselves engaged in delivering care that was typically associated with physicians.\u00a0 The nurses triaged soldiers in receiving areas, debrided and irrigated wounds in the operating room, and anesthetized surgical patients.\u00a0 In a conflict that pre-dated the use of antibiotics in preventing post-operative surgical site infections, prophylaxis consisted of irrigating wounds with Carrel-Dakins solution, a diluted sodium hypochlorite solution that had some antibacterial properties while being minimally irritating to healthy tissue.\u00a0 The nurses had the primary responsibility of wound care, as they prepared the solution and administered the treatment by slowly dripping it over the wound using special tubing.\u00a0 The nurses \u201cDakinized\u201d the wounds on the wards for five to seven-day periods and were instrumental in preventing gas gangrene.<\/p>\n<p>The nurses provided care for the soldiers\u2019 psychological wounds as well.\u00a0 Stepansky provides a historical overview of the medical approach to \u201cshell shock\u201d (now referred to as post-traumatic stress) that includes the debate of the time as to whether it was a true condition or a type of malingering. Nurses cared for patients who \u2013 compared to those with other disorders \u2013 had unusual symptoms such as prolonged staring, becoming easily startled, or suffering from spontaneous emotional outbursts. Stepansky recounts the experiences of the nurses themselves as they too suffered from traumatic stress due to their own repeated exposures to trauma, gore, suffering and death.<\/p>\n<p>An experience that was unique to the nurses of the Great War was the care of patients who were \u201cgassed\u201d with chlorine, mustard, and phosgene chemical weapons that were delivered in canisters and shells along the Western Front.\u00a0 The gas would cause severe burns to exposed skin and inflammation of the upper and lower respiratory systems.\u00a0 The soldiers would experience difficulty breathing and would often expose the nurses who provided their initial care to the gas on that remained on their uniforms.\u00a0 The nurses found the pain, suffering and disfigurement experienced by the gassed patients to be particularly unsettling, traumatic, and senseless.\u00a0 Stepansky recounts how the nurses improvised care as they provided comfort to the disfigured and suffering patients.<\/p>\n<p>As if the task of caring for those wounded in combat was not difficult enough, the nurses of the Great War had the additional burden of caring for those afflicted by the Spanish Influenza pandemic.\u00a0 The wartime conditions of crowded transport ships and training barracks resulted in a U.S. Army that would become incapacitated by the flu, as over one million soldiers contracted the disease.\u00a0 Stepansky illustrates how the nurses \u2013 who were already strained by the existing workload \u2013 would become ill themselves as they cared for those with the virus.\u00a0 The chief nurses would face the difficult challenge of maintaining staffing levels and morale as their own nurses fell ill, often succumbing to influenza themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Stepansky\u2019s <em>Easing Pain on the Western Front<\/em>\u00a0succeeds in educating the reader on the experience of what it was like providing care as an average bedside nurse during the Great War.\u00a0 Stepansky\u2019s comprehensive analysis of nursing care is illustrated with the words of the nurses themselves, who recounted their experiences in letters, diaries and memoirs.\u00a0 Throughout the book, Stepansky expertly compares the experiences of the nurses in previous and subsequent conflicts, allowing the reader to place the Great War nurse in context.\u00a0\u00a0<em>Easing Pain on the Western Front<\/em>\u00a0is particularly compelling in that it truly illustrates the relationship between nurses and patients and how each party is changed by the experience.\u00a0 It is a unique book that rightfully takes a prominent place among the scholarly histories of healthcare during the Great War.<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Review by Dr. Richard M. 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