Life-saving spongelike ‘bandage’ developed by researchers rapidly stops hemorrhaging and mitigates risk of infection

Life-saving spongelike ‘bandage’ developed by researchers rapidly stops hemorrhaging and mitigates risk of infection

Without proper medical intervention, injuries sustained from traffic collisions, serious workplace accidents or weapons may result in fatal hemorrhaging. University of Central Florida researchers aim to prevent such bleeding in potentially deadly situations with a new hemostatic spongelike bandage with antimicrobial efficacy that they recently developed and detailed in a newly published study in the journal Biomaterials Science.

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