[11th_VA]

SOunds like great stuff ...

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[CheneyChick]

Very interesting and verrrrry cool! Thanks for posting. These new advances are worth every dime:

Tests on animals showed that QuikClot turned wounds that once were 100 percent fatal into wounds that were 100 percent nonfatal, according to the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences at Bethesda, Md.

Cheers, CC :)

[American Soldier]

The other new method involves two kinds of bandages that also cause blood to quickly coagulate. One, produced by HemCon Inc. of Portland, Ore., stops arterial bleeding within a minute when applied with pressure on a wound. It’s made of chitosan, an extract of shrimp shells, and costs about $90 per bandage.

Isn't Chitosan the stuff that you're supposed to be able to eat along with fatty foods, and it sucks the excess fat right out of your system? I thought I heard about it on the radio a few years ago.

[Live free or die]

Sounds like an investment opportunity...not to sound like a profiteer or anything.

[eddie willers]

WOW!

[antaresequity]

“This has not been as much a business for us as a mission.”

This unity of purpose and mission found in Amercia is why we will always prevail...

[Bogey78O]

'Another bandage, being developed by the American Red Cross, is made of clotting proteins extracted from human blood. At a $1,000 each, use has been limited so far'

Well that's understandable. The ARC always has liked to turn a profit. I guess they moved from donuts and coffee to more lucrative opportunities.

[joesnuffy]

Bleeding is not as much a life threatening issue with explosions as are chest wounds and
collapsed lungs..
Better to get some extra training and experience for combat medics....much more....
I was lucky and got a lot of experinence in a busy emergency room with lots of hands on before being assigned to an inf platoon ..most of my collegues werent so fortunate..

[lizma]

It absorbs all but the blood's clotting factors (the protiens that make the blood clot) from an open wound. That is just amazing.

Hope the inventor makes mega bucks. This could save millions of lives. Wow.

[gcruse]

I had never used or heard of spray-on bandages until I needed one from the first aid kit at work. To this day, I am still amazed.

[Physicist]

The other new method involves two kinds of bandages that also cause blood to quickly coagulate. One, produced by HemCon Inc. of Portland, Ore., stops arterial bleeding within a minute when applied with pressure on a wound. It’s made of chitosan, an extract of shrimp shells, and costs about $90 per bandage.

This is to be compared to the front-line Iraqi soldiers, who for the most part get no medical attention whatsoever. The lowest American grunt will get better medical care than the Iraqi leadership can get for any price. We should all take great pride and satisfaction in that.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Let's put this invention, marvelous, though it might be, in some kind of perspective.

If you're bleeding internally (chest, abdomen, etc.) this stuff can't possibly help you.

Did anyone see the incredibly realistic depiction of the femoral arterial wound in Blackhawk Down? The wound were you could *hear* the blood escaping from the artery and they had to fight to get a clamp on the artery? This stuff would have little to no effectiveness in a situation like that. This is not going to stop the bleeding from a severed artery.

There probably are some specific situations where this would make a difference, but it's only fair to point out that this won't solve all battlefield bleeding problems.

[InkStone]

Tests on animals showed that QuikClot turned wounds... nonfatal...

Whoopee! Animals no longer needed: finally a good use for ANTI AMERICAN LIBERAL WAR PROTESTORS =^)

[Fixit]

CT Manufactured Bump!

[Kay Soze]

Bump!

Great Article.

We don't ned the Red Crescent I mean Cross version though.

[cogitator]

note to Professor van Helsing; dump the garlic clove bouquet. Sprinkle QuickClot on Mina's neck. Ol' Drac's choppers will get clogged faster than the pipes in the loo.

Jonathan