Building
Better Bandages
New dressings include natural clotting agents
Bandages that incorporate the
body's clotting agents may stop people from bleeding to death.
References:
Holcomb, J.B. ... M.J. MacPhee, and J. Hess. 1999. Effect of dry
fibrin sealant dressings versus gauze packing on blood loss in grade
V liver injuries in resuscitated swine. Journal of Trauma 46(January):49.
Holcomb, J.B., M. MacPhee ,... and J. Hess. 1998. Efficacy of a dry
fibrin sealant dressing for hemorrhage control after ballistic injury.
Archives of Surgery 133(January):32.
Woolverton, C.J. ... M. MacPhee. 1999. Subverting bacterial resistance
using high dose, low solubility antibiotics in fibrin. Infection
27(January):28.
Sources:
John Hess
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
Division of Blood Research
Gillette Room 1060
6825 16th Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20307
John B. Holcomb
William Beaumont Army Medical Center
Department of Surgery
El Paso, TX 79920
Martin MacPhee
American Red Cross
Biomedical Research and Development
The Jerome H. Holland Laboratory
15601 Crabbs Branch Way
Rockville, MD 20855
John Vournakis
Medical University of South Carolina
Center for Molecular and Structural Biology
86 Jonathan Lucas Street
P.O. Box 250956
Charleston, SC 29425
Christopher J. Woolverton
Kent State University
Department of Biological Sciences
Kent, OH 44242-0001
From Science
News, Vol. 155, No. 25, June 19, 1999, p. 396.
Copyright © 1999, Science Service.
