Posted on 02/05/2014 2:39:07 PM PST by Altariel
When a soldier is shot on the battlefield, the emergency treatment can seem as brutal as the injury itself. A medic must pack gauze directly into the wound cavity, sometimes as deep as 5 inches into the body, to stop bleeding from an artery. It’s an agonizing process that doesn't always work--if bleeding hasn't stopped after three minutes of applying direct pressure, the medic must pull out all the gauze and start over again. It’s so painful, “you take the guy’s gun away first,” says former U.S. Army Special Operations medic John Steinbaugh.
Even with this emergency treatment, many soldiers still bleed to death; hemorrhage is a leading cause of death on the battlefield. "Gauze bandages just don't work for anything serious," says Steinbaugh, who tended to injured soldiers during more than a dozen deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. When Steinbaugh retired in April 2012 after a head injury, he joined an Oregon-based startup called RevMedx, a small group of veterans, scientists, and engineers who were working on a better way to stop bleeding.
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Hey, thanks for posting! This is a remarkable device. Will probably soon show up in ambulances everywhere.
That's a colorful way to describe the pain. Reminds me of a scene from Braveheart...
Explains the shot card.
Thanking all vets for putting their lives on the line for the country, I’d rather see robot technology being developed for battlefield.
Yep, you are correct. I believe World War I was the first war (for Americans, anyway) where disease wasn’t the #1 killer of soldiers. Advances in medicine, nutrition and food preservation (bad tinned meats sickened a lot of guys in the Spanish-American War), and so on.
But then the flu epidemic right after the war killed more than WWI itself.
The US Civil War is a good example. There were about 600,000 fatalities on both sides. Only about 175,000 were caused by battle injuries, like being shot. All the others were caused by disease. It was far worse in earlier wars.
Ping to a much-needed invention.
No doubt that the Obama Regime will find a “very good reason” to NOT go forward with deployment of this life saving idea. In fact, they will likely reduce funding for the purchase of gauze.
After all, almost anything is to just too good for our troops.
Something to include in any first aid kit. Plus maxipads which are sterile for large abrasions. Clumping kitty litter is also a good item.
The leading theories on the flu's origins still have it war or military related.
Whoa. I like where they lucked onto the ideal size. Very impressive. BTT
Put under tire in snow to get out...I saw it on TV.
Deep wounds. It’s a backup. Stops the bleeding in larger areas. It’ll all be flushed out when you get to hospital and cleansed. The pads are good for large surface areas and the tampons good for deep penetrating wounds but it’s has to be replaced as they fill. The clumping litter solidifies. I have it packed in ziplock bags.
Impressive prepper idea.
“It’s so painful, “you take the guy’s gun away first,”
There was one way this pain was avoided in some places..
Apply what we called a ranger tourniquet...it went around the neck a certain way kinda like a brief sleeper hold with the same effect..
Set bones, plug holes, put shoulders back in with no pain.
Of course that what I heard somewhere..
The product is XStat - finally a way to stop arterial bleeding better than the specialized pressure bandage and hard gauze.
It will be $100 when it first comes out but that price will drop as more is produced. Get as many as you can afford. One per family member at least.
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