Stone, Andrea,
Clotting Bandages Will Save Lives of Soldiers. Andrea Stone. - USA Today, 2003. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2004. Article 5, Health, 1522-323X; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2004. Originally Published: Clotting Bandages Will Save Lives of Soldiers, Feb. 24, 2003; pp. n.p..
"Blood-clotting bandages developed to treat the kinds of wounds that led several U.S. Army rangers to bleed to death while pinned down in a fierce urban firefight in Somalia in 1993 could be used for the first time in battle in the streets of Baghdad if the United States goes to war with Iraq." (USA TODAY) This article explains how a new bandage, treated with a blood-clotting agent, can stop arterial bleeding in two minutes and may be available soon.
1522-323X;
Bandages and bandaging
Blood--Coagulation
Medical innovations
War wounds
Wounds and injuries--Treatment
United States--Armed Forces--Medical care
AC1.S5
050
Clotting Bandages Will Save Lives of Soldiers. Andrea Stone. - USA Today, 2003. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2004. Article 5, Health, 1522-323X; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2004. Originally Published: Clotting Bandages Will Save Lives of Soldiers, Feb. 24, 2003; pp. n.p..
"Blood-clotting bandages developed to treat the kinds of wounds that led several U.S. Army rangers to bleed to death while pinned down in a fierce urban firefight in Somalia in 1993 could be used for the first time in battle in the streets of Baghdad if the United States goes to war with Iraq." (USA TODAY) This article explains how a new bandage, treated with a blood-clotting agent, can stop arterial bleeding in two minutes and may be available soon.
1522-323X;
Bandages and bandaging
Blood--Coagulation
Medical innovations
War wounds
Wounds and injuries--Treatment
United States--Armed Forces--Medical care
AC1.S5
050