Freeze-Dried Blood May Save Soldiers' Lives 140
SpaceAdmiral writes "An Israeli company is working on a method to freeze-dry blood. This would enable soldiers to carry a packet of their own blood on the battlefield. If a soldier is injured and needs blood, medics could mix the dried blood with water and give the soldier a transfusion of his or her own blood. From the article: 'The idea is to take a soldier's blood, freeze it in laboratory conditions, take out the ice crystals leaving only the blood components. It will look like freeze-dried coffee in a little bag.'"
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They used it in ambulances under some exception to the general rule requiring informed consent for clinical trials.
You can read more about it by poking around Google
http://www.google.com/search?q=polyheme+consent [google.com]
There was a big ethical brouhaha when the testing made the papers.
So, when you say "final stages of field testing" you really mean
"used on accident victims without their permission."
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