[Newsbot]

Title: How A Simple New Invention Seals A Gunshot Wound In 15 Seconds
Category: Health
Posted By: N_Fiddledog
Date: 2014-02-04 14:14:35

[Jabberwalker]

Does it issue a little squirt of crazy glue to put together a shattered spinal column?

I can see the ads, hear the jingle now! ♪♫♪ "Need to plug up another slug? Just head on down to your CVS Drugs! ♪♫♪"

[BartSimpson]

My recommendation is to avoid getting shot.

[Public_Domain]

[QBall]

If this works maybe they should be handing them out to every soldier to use on eachother or themselves. Time is critical and you don't always have time to wait for a medic or be somewhere where one can reach you.

[ShepherdsDog]

they may not bleed out, but internal bleeding can kill just as quick too

[Jabberwalker]

QBall QBall:

If this works maybe they should be handing them out to every soldier to use on eachother or themselves. Time is critical and you don't always have time to wait for a medic or be somewhere where one can reach you.

I doubt that a soldier needs yet more kit to haul around. Why issue them to medics when they can make a proper dressing for a wound like that, anyway. it looks like a good idea looking for an application.

[BartSimpson]

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

I doubt that a soldier needs yet more kit to haul around.

If this product is any good then every troop will load it in their kit. It's not unusual to see troops humping packs that weigh more than the troops weigh.

Back in 1982 when I first deployed I took along everything but the kitchen sink. As I got older my packs got lighter and lighter until I was just bringing along the bare necessities: water, water purification, comms, ammunition, cleaning kit, first aid, a couple of tampons and a couple of maxi pads, spare firearms parts, tools, rifle and pistol, knives, paracord, steel mirror, water-proof matches and my Zippo.

If this stuff had been around I'd have packed it instead of the tampons and probably have ended up a wash on the weight.

[Jabberwalker]

The maxi-pads as sterile compression bandages, I presume. Would these be any better?

[PublicAnimalNo9]

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

Does it issue a little squirt of crazy glue to put together a shattered spinal column?

I can see the ads, hear the jingle now! ♪♫♪ "Need to plug up another slug? Just head on down to your CVS Drugs! ♪♫♪"

Ok, now THAT was rep worthy, if you had them on

[PublicAnimalNo9]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

I doubt that a soldier needs yet more kit to haul around.

If this product is any good then every troop will load it in their kit. It's not unusual to see troops humping packs that weigh more than the troops weigh.

Just to put things in comparison, not factoring in weapons weight, a full suit of well-built, articulated medieval armour weighs in at around 65lbs.
While from what I understand, a modern US combat soldier typically has a minimum of 80-90lbs on their backs.

[Jabberwalker]

.... and no Percheron to haul him around, either.

[BartSimpson]

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

The maxi-pads as sterile compression bandages, I presume. Would these be any better?

This product would not replace the maxi pads. It would replace the tampons.

Not at JW here, but FYI for the uninformed: Tampons are sealed and sterile and you can use the applicator to get the tampon into a gunshot wound nice and easy instead of doing it by-the-book and having some turd painfully shove gauze into the wound. They also have that handy little string so a surgeon can easily remove them instead of having to go fishing around inside the wound to pull out any loose gauze.

[Jabberwalker]

I'll buy that. Any wound big enough to accept a tampon is probably close to fatal, anyway. I suppose that the exit wound from even a smallish round is that big, though.

[BartSimpson]

PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9:

While from what I understand, a modern US combat soldier typically has a minimum of 80-90lbs on their backs.

In practice the troops usually carry double whatever their unit wants them to carry. The struggle is to carry as little as you can, not as much as you can.