New Foam That Stops Internal Bleeding
- 11 years ago
A new foam that stops internal bleeding has widespread medical usage.
Medical research has developed a foam that can be injected to stop internal injuries from bleeding. About 85 percent of preventable deaths on the battlefield are caused by excessive bleeding from wounds that can’t be compressed.
The federal Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, has been funding research by Arsenal Medical Inc. to create the life saving treatment.The foam is composed of two injectable liquids reacting together to become foam inside the body, which then finds its way to the injury and blocks the wound from bleeding.
The response time is a matter of minutes, and would give injured people a window of up to three hours to seek further medical attention and have the foam removed, which in clinical tests took prepared doctors less than a minute to do.
The researchers are now looking for the United States Food and Drug Administration to approve the treatment so they can perform medical testing on humans.
DARPA program manager Brian Holloway said: "If testing bears out, the foam technology could affect up to 50 percent of potentially survivable battlefield wounds."
Do you think this experimental medical treatment should be approved?
Medical research has developed a foam that can be injected to stop internal injuries from bleeding. About 85 percent of preventable deaths on the battlefield are caused by excessive bleeding from wounds that can’t be compressed.
The federal Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, has been funding research by Arsenal Medical Inc. to create the life saving treatment.The foam is composed of two injectable liquids reacting together to become foam inside the body, which then finds its way to the injury and blocks the wound from bleeding.
The response time is a matter of minutes, and would give injured people a window of up to three hours to seek further medical attention and have the foam removed, which in clinical tests took prepared doctors less than a minute to do.
The researchers are now looking for the United States Food and Drug Administration to approve the treatment so they can perform medical testing on humans.
DARPA program manager Brian Holloway said: "If testing bears out, the foam technology could affect up to 50 percent of potentially survivable battlefield wounds."
Do you think this experimental medical treatment should be approved?