As reported by Quick Firm, final Wednesday the FDA gave medical gadget clearance to a product known as Traumagel that is designed to stop bleeding and is principally a real-life model of Halo’s Biofoam. Solely as an alternative of coming in a camo-green cylindrical canister, it is available in a stimpak-looking plastic dispenser, “a 30-ml syringe of an algae- and fungi-based hemostatic gel that is the colour and texture of hummus.”
Traumagel is designed for the sort of extreme bleeding that follows a bullet wound, which might in any other case be handled with a product like QuickClot, a gauze that is soaked in a chemical clotting agent, or good old style superglue, like in that one episode of Poker Face.
“If in case you have a roll of gauze, you need to pack that right into a bullet wound inch by inch, and you need to guarantee it is making contact with no matter’s bleeding,” stated Joe Landolina, founding father of Traumagel creator Cresilon. “It is painful for the affected person and it is harmful as a result of it could expose an EMT or emergency doctor to shrapnel or shards of bone. [Traumagel] finds its option to the place it must go.”
Earlier than being accepted to be used on people Traumagel was used on injured animals underneath the title Vetigel. If it is ok in your cat it is ok for you, which is the excuse I take advantage of to clarify why I ate cat biscuits as a child. Anyway, Landolina went on to say, “Ninety-one % of battlefield mortality is because of preventable hemorrhage. Which suggests if there have been solely a greater product to cease bleeding, lives might be saved.”
It is not fairly the stimpak that immediately heals a damaged leg in Fallout 3, or the FPS medkit that restores you to good well being just by strolling over it, nevertheless it’s certainly solely a matter of time, proper?
