Daily Mail: Soldiers in firefight with Taliban become the first to give blood to wounded comrades with battlefield blood transfusions - before picking up their guns to carry on
* Group of Army Rangers ended up giving blood while coming under enemy fire
* The real-time blood transfusions took place in Afghanistan last summer
* The Rangers were coming under enemy fire while still donating their blood
* After it was all over, those who had donated got up and ran back into battle
A group of Army Rangers that were engaged in a firefight in Afghanistan ended up donating blood to a fellow soldier after one of their comrades became severely wounded during a battle.
The on-the-spot blood transfusion was carried out last summer and saw three other soldiers who were on the field give blood in a process that took less than 10 minutes.
After donating their blood, the soldiers then got back up and carried on fighting the enemy.
The Rangers used a technique known as the Rangers O Low Titre Program or ROLO which allows soldiers to donate blood to their wounded comrades on the battlefield in a matter of minutes.
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WNU Editor: Loss of blood and shock are major killers on the battlefield. This application is going to save lives.
3 comments:
If US forces had had these (and many other) medical marvels in WWII, our casualties would have been halved. Amazing.
Not to mention choppers Russ.
They had choppers in WW2 and they were used in the front lines by Germans and Americans.
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