August 20, 2012

Toward a portable emergency treatment for stopping life-threatening internal bleeding




PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 20, 2012 — Progress toward a new emergency treatment for internal bleeding ― counterpart to the tourniquets, pressure bandages and Quick Clot products that keep people from bleeding to death from external wounds ― was reported here today at the 244th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society, the world’s largest scientific society.