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As horrific as it is, the battlefield is also a medical laboratory.
Pressed into using every resource they have, medics, doctors and nurses struggle to save the lives of people who have been so badly wounded that a few years ago no one would have believed they had a chance of surviving.
FLYING FOR LIFE: New battlefield medical techniques are saving lives | Riverside | PE.com | Southern California News | News for Inland Southern California
Seeded on Mon Mar 28, 2011 6:51 PM EDT
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What an incredible story of innovation. I wonder how many other lives it could save if some of this was adapted in regular medicine for trauma patients.
#1 - Mon Mar 28, 2011 6:58 PM EDTThere have been alot of advances in treatment of trauma patients that started as innovations in the treatment of the wounded in battle. There is a section in DOD that does research in this area and some of their innovations often find their way in to "civilian" medicine.
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I was thinking that would be the case, but it makes you wonder how much of it came from the battlefield and how long did it take to become part of a routine surgery or procedure.
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