Building from previous knowledge Georgia Health Sciences University reported yesterday that two emergency medicine physicians with wartime experience came up with this inflatable abdominal tourniquet. The device has been successfully tested for durations up to one hour on pigs. Human testing has been shorter periods, apparently solely to see whether the pressure generated was enough [...]
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