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Title: foam dressings
Post by: DD1975 on December 12, 2012, 18:45:11 PM

This tech is frankly.....wow!!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20693705 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20693705)

Title: Re: foam dressings
Post by: Snowcrash on December 13, 2012, 17:39:15 PM

$15.5M!!!!

You can buy this stuff in a can from your local building suppliers. ;D

Title: Re: foam dressings
Post by: DD1975 on December 13, 2012, 23:21:33 PM

:rofl:

Title: Re: foam dressings
Post by: Diesel on December 14, 2012, 10:37:44 AM

Any advancement in Battlefield Trauma treatment has got to be a good thing. According to the blurb, this foam can be easily removed in one lump but surely any loose bits would be ripped out at the same time. :scratch-head:

Title: Re: foam dressings
Post by: DaveMorton on December 14, 2012, 12:20:30 PM

Perhaps, but are we talking bits of foam, or bits of the victim? :innocent: :confused:

Title: Re: foam dressings
Post by: DD1975 on December 15, 2012, 21:13:53 PM

While it's battlefield applications are obvious, imagine the civilian opportunities once it is perfected....

Title: Re: foam dressings
Post by: Diesel on December 15, 2012, 21:24:03 PM

Hey ye', you could fill up old folk and they would never get cold again. ;)

Title: Re: foam dressings
Post by: DD1975 on December 15, 2012, 22:37:09 PM

With the added bonus that they would float, saving Saga cruises fortunes in providing lifeboats on their cruise ships

Datahopa

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