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By Seth Robbins
Stars and Stripes
Published: August 16, 2011
Uncontrolled bleeding from the chest, neck, groin and abdomen — areas where a tourniquet cannot be cinched — accounts for the vast majority of preventable deaths downrange, doctors and researchers say.
To help stop the bleeding, medics and doctors in Afghanistan will soon have two more options available to them: a lifesaving drug that aids clotting, and a new viselike tourniquet that can be placed over the groin and lower abdomen—areas where a typical tourniquet will not work.
The drug, tranexamic acid, is cheap, widely available and safe, doctors and researchers say. The British military first began injecting troops with the drug after a global study, published in 2010, showed that tranexamic acid reduced deaths by 10 percent when given within eight hours of injury, and even more when administered sooner.
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