A 20-year-old man lay bleeding heavily on a Baldwin street, his right arm torn open, after being struck by a car. Without a ...
Unlike with a traditional blood draw, the patient does not see the needle go into the arm nor the tubes of blood. The process takes about two minutes and has a 95% success rate on the first attempt.
At this year's American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons (AAOS) annual meeting, investigators at Hospital for Special Surgery ...
Thanks to advances in medicine and technology, tourniquets may not be needed as often. For example, tranexamic acid (TXA) is now commonly used to effectively reduce bleeding and lower the ...