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Data supporting clinical use of foam system presented at the 28th Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST) Annual Scientific Assembly in Orlando, Florida

ON OBSERVING that most injured soldiers died before receiving medical attention, Dominique-Jean Larrey, a young surgeon in Napoleon’s army, proposed installing surgical teams near the front lines. Horse-drawn carriages would whisk the wounded from the battlefield to the closest field hospital, dramatically reducing casualties. Today the whisking is done by helicopter or ambulance and the treatment on arrival is incomparably better.

About 25 percent of battlefield casualties are medically preventable, according to the Army Institute of Surgical Research. But what if there was something that could buy that wounded soldier time? One local company is working on doing just that.

Novel Arsenal foam technology to stabilize soldiers with severe abdominal hemorrhage, addressing major source of battlefield mortality.