POSTS TAGGED AS Trauma

Point-of-Care Viscoelastic Coagulation Monitoring

Working principles of viscoelastic point-of-care coagulation devices
It only takes about 20% loss of blood for life-threatening hemorrhagic shock to set [MORE]

An Ear on an Elbow

Ear growing on an elbow
After a female soldier lost her left ear in a car crash, Army surgeons took samples [MORE]

Magnetic Nanoparticles to Staunch Internal Bleeding

Vessel Damage Model
Chemical engineers at ITMO University (St. Petersburg, Russia) have developed intravenously injected nanoparticles that can be moved to [MORE]

Automated Vital Signs Scanning for Trauma Patients in Transit

APPRAISE System
Internal hemorrhaging is a life-threatening risk for trauma patients, and every moment toward a correct assessment saves live. To [MORE]

3-D Printed Hands for Children

3-D Hand
With the gift of a 3-D printer from his wife, a Johns Hopkins trauma surgeon made an artificial hand [MORE]

3-D Printed Skull Implants

OPM 3D Printed Skull
Polyketone is a high performance thermoplastic polymer that Oxford Performance Materials (South Windsor, [MORE]

Nanoparticle Hemostatic Coating

MIT’s Institute for Soldier Nanotechnology has created a nanoscale biological coating that, when applied to surgical sponges, can quickly [MORE]

Helmsley Trust Funding Telemedicine in Midwest

Telemedicine
Leona Helmsley will be remembered at “the Queen of Mean,” and for saying that “only the little people pay [MORE]

Extracorporeal Shock Wave Technology for Tissue Regeneration

Pressure Wave Production from PACE Applicator
Sanuwave (Alpharetta, GA) recently announced positive results European trials of its “Pulsed Acoustic Cellular [MORE]

Anti-Bleeding Balloon

Internal compression balloon
Every war produces new medical technology because every war is different.  Afghanistan and Iraq have produced more [MORE]

World’s First Bionic Finger

Prodigits Hand
TouchBionics (Livingston, UK and Hilliard, OH) has developed the world’s first bionic finger, called “ProDigits.”  The company also [MORE]