Freeze-Dried Blood May Save Soldiers' Lives

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday July 27, 2006 @05:25AM from the we've-mixed-blood-into-this-man's-coffee dept.

SpaceAdmiral writes "An Israeli company is working on a method to freeze-dry blood. This would enable soldiers to carry a packet of their own blood on the battlefield. If a soldier is injured and needs blood, medics could mix the dried blood with water and give the soldier a transfusion of his or her own blood. From the article: 'The idea is to take a soldier's blood, freeze it in laboratory conditions, take out the ice crystals leaving only the blood components. It will look like freeze-dried coffee in a little bag.'"

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Re:Two technologies by zamboni1138 · 2006-07-27 06:21 · Score: 0, Troll

"...promise to significantly reduce deaths caused by trauma on the battlefields..."

For Israel anyway. Instead of the 10:1 loss ratio we are seeing right now, they might be able to get to 15:1 or 20:1 against Hezbollah/Lebanon civs.