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How A Simple New Invention Seals A Gunshot Wound In 15 Seconds
Popular Science ^ | February 3, 2014 | Rose Pastore

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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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: banglist; gunshot; gunshotwounds; hemorrhage; invention; revmedx; seals; seconds; simple; sponge; wound; xstat
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21 posted on 02/05/2014 3:03:54 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: Altariel

Hey, thanks for posting! This is a remarkable device. Will probably soon show up in ambulances everywhere.


22 posted on 02/05/2014 3:06:06 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Altariel
It’s so painful, “you take the guy’s gun away first,” says former U.S. Army Special Operations medic John Steinbaugh.

That's a colorful way to describe the pain. Reminds me of a scene from Braveheart...

That'll wake ye up in the mornin,' boy!

23 posted on 02/05/2014 3:06:32 PM PST by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: CIB-173RDABN
This is 100 percent why the public thinks Republicans and Conservatives are nasty.

Explains the shot card.

24 posted on 02/05/2014 3:06:54 PM PST by xone
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To: Altariel; All

Thanking all vets for putting their lives on the line for the country, I’d rather see robot technology being developed for battlefield.


25 posted on 02/05/2014 3:08:10 PM PST by Amendment10
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To: CIB-173RDABN

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.


26 posted on 02/05/2014 3:09:23 PM PST by DemforBush (A Repo Man is *always* intense.)
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To: DemforBush

But then the flu epidemic right after the war killed more than WWI itself.


27 posted on 02/05/2014 3:16:25 PM PST by Argus
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To: Altariel
Sounds like a damn wonderful idea. I hope to God it works and saves some lives.
However RevMedx is new and small. if this invention is as good as advertised, I figure one or more CongressCritters
will find a way to move all the profits to one of their major donors with the politico collecting huge “finder's fees. The veterans, scientists, and engineers that invented and sweated out the FDA approval will be out in the cold. That seems to be how things work in America today.
It is not what you know or even who you know, but whose palm is greased.
28 posted on 02/05/2014 3:30:10 PM PST by Tupelo (I am feeling more like Philip Nolan every day)
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To: CIB-173RDABN

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.


29 posted on 02/05/2014 3:33:51 PM PST by libstripper (Asv)
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To: Interesting Times; GreyFriar; SeraphimApprentice

Ping to a much-needed invention.


30 posted on 02/05/2014 3:34:46 PM PST by zot
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To: Altariel

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.


31 posted on 02/05/2014 3:37:26 PM PST by Howie66 (Molon Labe, Traitors!)
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To: null and void

Something to include in any first aid kit. Plus maxipads which are sterile for large abrasions. Clumping kitty litter is also a good item.


32 posted on 02/05/2014 3:41:03 PM PST by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral)
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To: Argus
But then the flu epidemic right after the war killed more than WWI itself.

The leading theories on the flu's origins still have it war or military related.

33 posted on 02/05/2014 3:47:31 PM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: SkyDancer
Something to include in any first aid kit. Plus maxipads which are sterile for large abrasions. Clumping kitty litter is also a good item. .

What is the clumping kitty litter for?
34 posted on 02/05/2014 3:49:14 PM PST by philled (If this creature is not stopped it could make its way to Novosibirsk!)
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To: Altariel

Whoa. I like where they lucked onto the ideal size. Very impressive. BTT


35 posted on 02/05/2014 3:50:17 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: philled

Put under tire in snow to get out...I saw it on TV.


36 posted on 02/05/2014 3:54:15 PM PST by Kackikat
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To: philled

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.


37 posted on 02/05/2014 3:56:38 PM PST by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral)
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To: Kartographer

Impressive prepper idea.


38 posted on 02/05/2014 3:58:46 PM PST by verga (Poor spiritual health often leads to poor physical and mental health)
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To: Altariel

“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..


39 posted on 02/05/2014 4:01:40 PM PST by riverss
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To: Kartographer

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.


40 posted on 02/05/2014 4:14:12 PM PST by Marcella ((Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.))
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