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Cong Hoa Hospital, Burn Ward, Saigon, Vietnam

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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…

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