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Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Newest Cool Device : X-Stat Dressing (from the Trauma Professional's Blog)
You land at a scene for a shooting victim. You load him into your aircraft and a stream of blood sprays up and over the patient/pilot barrier and lands in a spotted pattern on the pilot's knee-board. He exclaims.
Gauze and pressure aren't stemming the flow, and you have a long flight back to a trauma center.
Perhaps this product would help...
We were pointed to this by Dr. McGonigal on his blog. Click here.
Read more at a PopSci article here...
Im curious to see how loudly the trauma surgeon will curse my name when he opens his pt. and finds that i have littered his internal thoracic cavity with a thousand tiny sponges.
ReplyDeleteStill, cool idea. Id like to have this on my aircraft.
Only good thing about war......
And thanks for attaching the trauma blog. its gonna be a good read!