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Canarian Weekly
18-12-2015, 12:10
A REMARKABLE “sponge” injection, soaking up about one pint of blood, could save the lives of people with gunshot wounds. The device, called XSTAT, 30 squirts out 92 tiny compressed cellulose sponges coated with a blood-absorbing substance. As they absorb the blood, the sponges swell in the process to fill in a wound and stop […]

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