Military
Aid Organization Achieves First Battlefield Blood Transfusions in Burmese Jungle War Zone
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542: Stronghold: War, Rescue, and Resistance. With Ephraim Mattos
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"We are now pulling blood from one person, from a donor who's just sitting there, and then you're putting it into another person in the middle of the jungle in an active war zone. The level of care that we're now able to give in these situations is just astronomically higher. A lot more people are surviving these injuries. We had this 14-year-old girl heavily wounded, and the doctor said yeah, if there was no blood, she would have died."
Stronghold Rescue and Relief successfully implemented battlefield blood transfusion capability in remote Burmese jungle locations, dramatically improving survival rates for traumatic injuries. The innovation came after recognizing patients were bleeding out during multi-hour evacuations over mountainous terrain. Local medics were trained to perform transfusions, and saved a critically wounded 14-year-old girl the day after training concluded.
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- 542: Stronghold: War, Rescue, and Resistance. With Ephraim Mattos
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