A frame for endotracheal tubes helps protect patients.
Equally important: quickly staunching blood when wounds bleed profusely. Now, a Taiwanese startup is showing how this can be done with biocompatible agents like amino acids.
The latter build proteins in the body and assist with the production of enzymes. Using a newly-developed biotechnological method, the team combined amino acid molecules with those from (undisclosed) metals.
The result was a powder that can be directly applied to open wounds, and which staunches bleeding 80% quicker than natural clotting.
Within 60 seconds in fact. The powder is antibacterial and can be stored at room temperature.
This inflating foam also stops bleeding in seconds. Donor blood, meanwhile, could soon be available in greater supply.
