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Material Made From Crustaceans Could Combat Battlefield Blood Loss
MTorrice writes: A foam composed of a polymer derived from crustacean shells may prevent more soldiers from falling victim to the most prolific killer on the battlefield: blood loss. Pressure is one of the best tools that medics have to fight bleeding, but they can't use it on severe wounds near organs. Here, compression could do more harm than good. First responders have no way to effectively dam blood flows from these non-compressible injuries, which account for the majority of hemorrhagic deaths. The new foam could help stop bleeding in these types of injuries. It relies on chitosan, a biopolymer that comes from processed crustacean shells. By modifying the chitosan, the developers gave the material the ability to anchor blood cells into gel-like networks, essentially forming blood clots. The researchers dispersed the modified chitosan in water to create a fluid they could spray directly onto noncompressible wounds.
Wasn't this reported upon a couple years ago?
My friend who used to work as an army medic told me about it several years ago, as they have deployed the kit in the frontline
We Greeks call "crustaceans" cancer-oids (was that their former official zoologic taxonomic name?), and think they are delicious - now we can use their shells to save soldiers?
One of my great and famous ancient Greek ancestor (i don't remember his name, we have so many of them!) loved them so much that once eat so many of them making him so sick that his doctor told him he most probably will die in few hours - my ancestor, since he accepted that his death was inevitable, asked for some more!
Why spend so much money trying to save soldier's lives, when their very job and purpose is killing other soldiers ?
Their job is not to be killed and kill as much as possible of the enemy. As it's been seen from the last wars, fighting against a diminished army makes it easier to win the war.
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
already do this...with the same ingredients. just don't be allergic to shellfish.
I thought the whole purpose of engaging in battle is wasting lives?
You thought correctly but incompletly: the whole purpose of engaging in battle is wasting ENEMY lives!
The enemy's enemy is you. Go waste yourself.
lol. Wow. This is *OLD* news. The military has been using this technology for over 20 years now.
The enemy's enemy is you. Go waste yourself.
The enemy's enemy's enemy is the enemy... go waste him!
But, without war, how will Bama earn his Peace Prize?
The whole purpose of battle is that one side thinks its lives are worth more....
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Yes, shellfish based bandages have been around for the last decade, yes. No, this isnt the same as that. This is a spray, not a bandage. No pressure necessary, just spray the wound like windex and you're good. This is a major advance and you lot are "lol omg seen this 10 years ago lolslashdot",
Peace would be much more efficient.
I agree. How do you suggest we create peace with ISIL/ISIS?
Perhaps we should not have created ISIS in the first place. Blame Obama.
Or perhaps since the local area had already mostly found an equilibrium, we should not have toppled that evil-bastard Saddam Hussein. Yes, he was evil. Yes, I would not want him for my president. But he was reasonably well contained and provided a counter balance to the other powers in the region. Blame Bush II.
We can walk our way back in time and blame [nearly?] every U.S. president regardless of party back to the fall of the Ottoman Empire. We can then start blaming the Europeans for carving up the Mid-East in such a way that it was a breeding ground for future wars.
But peace? Do you have any concrete mechanisms that would actually improve the situation?
But surely, since it's verey much public news, the enemy will make their own crustacean medkits.
If nobody gets an advantage, the whole point is moot, since they'll keep fighting anways.
If they weren't trying to hard to research this kind of military applications, it'd still be discovered eventually, it'd still be public, it'd still be moot, but we'd save money.
awesome
same substance, new delivery method.
i bet you could kill someone with an injection of this stuff.
Hooray! I'm helping!
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
I bet you could kill someone with an injection of this stuff.
Same is true for many things.
Read the article? I get the feeling sometimes that people here don't even bother to read the summary.
And sometimes, not even the title.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
Go shoot some Gitmo detainees and see how it does.
" No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country." Gen. George S. Patton
We use it in the (UK) civilian ambulance service!
And sometimes, not even the title.
You insensitive clod! In Soviet Russia, our new overlords welcome you!
Wait... you combine them all like that, it actually kinda makes sense...
Here is another material that has been used to stop bleeding. Its been around for a longer time.
"Bleed-X Vet Hemostatic Powder originates from over a decade of research and clinical use in the human market. Since 2001, Medaforâ(TM)s patented Microporous Polysaccharide Hemosphere (MPH) technology has been saving lives in both humans and animals- clinically proven to be a superior method to control surgical and topical hemorrhage in over 2 million human applications.
Bleed-X Vet is indicated in surgical, dental and topical procedures as an adjunctive hemostatic device to assist when control of capillary, venous and arteriolar bleeding by pressure, ligature and other conventional means are ineffective or impractical. Bleed-X is made from two well-known hemostatic components: MPH combined with Oxidized Cellulos (OC)micro-fibers which together act to rapidly dehydrate blood and concentrate clotting proteins, red blood cells, and platelets to promote rapid gel formation which accelerates the natural clotting cascade with no inherent risk of adverse events."
http://www.dvmsolutions.com/bl...
For sure. Air is ordinarily very benign and quite necessary to sustain human life, but not so much when it's injected into a vein.
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Grow up. Seriously. You're either 6, being intentionally stupid, or severely delayed in your maturation.
Actually the main purpose is to wound as many enemies as you can. Each wounded soldier takes 2-3 support people to care for them. The purpose of engaging in battle is to gain the specific objective (hill, town, city) as described by the mission objectives. A lot of killing takes place, yes, but it's actually the wounded that count the most from a tactical standpoint.
Stop being dicks. Problem solved.
This is a major advance and you lot are "lol omg seen this 10 years ago lolslashdot",
It makes sense if you accept the premise that their purpose for being here is to feel smug and superior, not to get it right.
My God, it's Full of Source!
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would do even more to stop the bleeding... /justsayin
Back in the 1970's a friend who had been a medic told me about a spray clotting agent that was then saving lives called Topostat or Topistat. He found somewhere to buy it commercially and a few of up pitched in and got some spray cans. I never use it for more than patching up a scraped knee, but it seemed to be great stuff. Scrape you knee, spray on this stuff, and you had an instant scab to stop further bleeding.
I've never seen it again since, and even a search of the Internet seems to be completely ignorant of it. Apparently a Trademark was given for the name in 2004, but as that was about 30 years from when I saw the product that I had I'm thinking it is likely a different product. Anyone have any information on this product from the 70's?
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
crustaceans are sea-gerbils!
I've had some of this stuff in my first aid kit at work for several years now. In both loose granules and coated dressings. How is this news exactly?
I believe this was reported in Slashdot years ago. Chitosan based bandages are available on Amazon. I carry one in the first aid kit on the motorcycle. Is this Retread Sunday?
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
Just stop having battlefields and armed people trying to kill one another, and you'll see a %100 drop in battlefield deaths due to armed conflict. Its that simple.
Let's beat drums with our obliterated lobster limbs. Is this a Verhoeven parody of "news" or what?
This gives crab people a whole new meaning!