Clotting Bandages Will Save Lives of Soldiers. Andrea Stone.
by Stone, Andrea; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2004Article 5Health. Publisher: USA Today, 2003ISSN: 1522-323X;.Subject(s): Bandages and bandaging | Blood -- Coagulation | Medical innovations | United States -- Armed Forces -- Medical care | War wounds | Wounds and injuries -- TreatmentDDC classification: 050 Summary: "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.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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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.
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