Images: Ultrasound heads for battle
Philips Research and the University of Washington explore using ultrasound technology to stem internal bleeding when soldiers are injured in battle.
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Project purpose
Ultrasound technology is best-known for its use in producing images of fetuses in the womb. But focused beams of high-intensity sound waves also can be used to stop internal bleeding--an ultrasound application that Philips Research, with funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, hopes to adapt for use on the battlefield, where many injuries become fatal because internal bleeding is not stopped in a timely way.
This series of images and their accompanying narrative depict how such an ultrasound device might be used in a battlefield situation.
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Preparing injured area
Preparing the injured area for the ultrasound cuff.
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High-intensity ultrasound
The device would then focus high-intensity ultrasound pulses on the internal injury--a ruptured artery, in this case.
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Pulses generate heat
The ultrasonic pulses generate heat on the injured area, causing blood tissue to coagulate.
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Rupture is stabilized
Once the rupture is stabilized, the soldier can be transported without further damage to the injured limb.
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