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U.S. personnel and equipment needed to save a life are assembled at HQs of the 8225th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, Korea, in 1951.
Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals (MASH) were U.S. Army field hospital units conceptualized in 1946 as replacements for the obsolete World War II-era Auxiliary Surgical Group hospital units.[1] MASH units were in operation from the Korean War to the Gulf War before being phased out in the early 2000s.[1][2] Each MASH unit had 60 beds, as well as surgical, nursing, and other enlisted and officer staff available at all times.[1] MASH units filled a vital role in military medicine by providing support to army units upwards of 10,000 to 20,000 soldiers.[3] These units had a low mortality rate compared to others, as the transportation time to hospitals was shorter, resulting in fewer patients dying within the "Golden Hour",[4] the first hour after an injury is first sustained, which is referred to in trauma as the "most important hour".[4] The U.S. Army deactivated the last MASH unit on February 16, 2006, and the successors to Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals are combat support hospitals.
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