Salt Lake Telegram | 1951-10-09 | Page 2 | Atom Victims Need Vast Medical Aid

Victims Need Vast VastI I Aid I CHICAGO Oct 9 UP Five UP-Five Five persons and a small mountain of I medical supplies would be needed to treat a single atomic bomb victim a Navy expert said Tues Tues- day Lt Allen W W. Kenney safety officer of oC the U. U S S. S Navy Bureau of oC Medicine 1 and Surgery told the tine American Society o of Safety Engineers that these things would be required to treat trent a person burned over 40 of his body two Forty tanks of oxygen Thirty six pints of plasma Forty pints of blood One hundred pints of oC other fluids An undetermined amount of antibiotics Twenty seven miles of gauze Three nurses Two physicians Kenney said a persons person's chances for lor surviving an atomic attack the individual indi indi- i were good providing vidual vi dual was not inside the area arca of a direct hit and if he observed the proper safeguards