Darpa Wants To Pump Wounded Soldiers Full of Foam For Safe Transport

Quickly stabilise a wounded soldier and get them off the battlefield is vital to their endurance . But with internal injuries prepping a patient for safe transfer is super complicated . SoDarpa ’s Wound Stasis Systemprogram has funded the developing of an injectable froth that stop internal bleeding and steady Hammond organ so a soldier can be safely moved .

The froth , which is really a polyurethane polymer , is injected into a patient as two dissimilar liquids . When they encounter and meld inside the abdominal cavity they extend up to 30 times their original bulk and then solidify to stop bleed and hold everything in place until proper medical attention can be administered . The froth can also be easily remove by a operating surgeon in less than a minute of arc , usually in one hearty block that go forth very few fragments behind .

In test the froth has been found to stop severe hemorrhaging in inner injuries for up to three hours , with a six - fold decrease in blood red during that time . And the endurance rate for patients at the three - hour mark was increase from just eight percent to 72 percent when the froth was administered . And here we thought that stuff and nonsense was only useful for isolate our homes . [ DarpaviaTechnabob ]