Cong Hoa Hospital, Burn Ward, Saigon, Vietnam

Year Published: 1967

Creator: National Archives

Format: 16mm/video file

Description: National Archives and Records Administration ARC Identifier 34267 / Local Identifier 111-LC-56669 Cong Hoa Hospital, Burn Ward, Saigon, Vietnam Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations. U.S. Army Audiovisual Center. (ca. 1974 - 05/15/1984). This roll depicts a Vietnamese nurse going over the medical chart of a burn patient. Depicted first is the chart alone. The next two takes depict the nurse looking over the chart of a burn patient with another patient in the background. The nurse is depicted flipping the pages of the chart and making notations on several pages. The patient whose chart is being examined is also depicted in this shot. The first part of this roll depicts a medical cart with various bottles on it. The group of bottles shown in this shot are the ones containing sulfur mylon. There are two bottles of sulfur mylon in the cart. One, the large bottle contains 10% Mafenide HCL (Hydrocloric Acid). The small bottle contains 5% Mafenide HCL. Also depicted with the bottles is an atomizer (spray applicator). Sulfur mylon is the solution that is a major part in the healing and recovery of the burn patients. The above was shot two times. The remaining footage on this roll depicts nurses checking a patient for gastro-intestinal bleeding, A bed pan is given to the patient, the patient deficates in the bed pan and the specimin is then checked for blood. This roll depicts a Vietnamese nurse taking a blood sample from a burned patient. The camera was kept running throughout the entire procedure so as to show all the steps required in taking a blood sample from a patient. This footage shows doctor Lieu, Head of the Emergency Ward, checking a patient over. This is a series of shots depicting the procedure with new patients. Dr. Lieu listens to the patient's abdomen in the first shot. The second shot shows the patient's blood pressure being taken. The next shot shows an intravenous cathedor being inserted into a patient's arm. This shot was a sudden thing that came up in the emergency room. Not much of the procedure is shown because the Vietnamese doctor who is performing the insertion is blocking the camera's view. The final shot on this roll shows a bottle of dextrose. A CU of the bottle and the air bubbles as the dextrose is fed into the patient's arm is shown. This footage depicts Doctor Lam listening to the abdomen of a small boy burned on the face, chest and lower extremities of his body. This was shot two times. The first take will be no good. It was greatly overexposed. This shows Dr. Lam listening to the boy's abdomen and the different places he positions the stethoscope on the boy's body. DVD copied by Ann Galloway.