Two new options to help stem bleeding, save lives of wounded

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By Seth Robbins
Stars and Stripes
Published: August 16, 2011
Uncontrolled bleeding from the chest, neck, groin and abdomen — areas where a tourniquet cannot be cinched — accounts for the vast majority of preventable deaths downrange, doctors and researchers say.
To help stop the bleeding, medics and doctors in Afghanistan will soon have two more options available to them: a lifesaving drug that aids clotting, and a new viselike tourniquet that can be placed over the groin and lower abdomen—areas where a typical tourniquet will not work.
The drug, tranexamic acid, is cheap, widely available and safe, doctors and researchers say. The British military first began injecting troops with the drug after a global study, published in 2010, showed that tranexamic acid reduced deaths by 10 percent when given within eight hours of injury, and even more when administered sooner.
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Thats good stuff, I hope it does get sent in higher qauntities over seas and ultimatly saves many more lives.:-D

Great Post

Yo,
 
Rangers lead the way against combat deaths

by Joe Gould
The 75th Ranger Regiment has all but eliminated “preventable” combat deaths, according to a new report in the Archives of Surgery that was based on data collected since 2001. “The military has advanced combat casualty care absolutely tremendously,” said Dr. Donald Trunkey, a trauma surgeon at the Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, told [...]

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In Vn, the average time for a medivac was 2 hours.
That was considered miraculous at the time and saved 2/3rds of wounded who would have died previously.
Talked to a guy yesterday whose son was wounded last week. Got treatment and evac in 12 minutes.

Salute to the medivacs and associated folks.
 
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