I saw somewhere that DARPA had created a sort of substance that can be applied to bleeding areas of the body to stop the bleeding. Could we potentially see real Biofoam in the future that not only stops bleeding, but also keeps damaged organs in place, numbs pain and be used as a rapid deploy medical tool on the front lines? Leave your thoughts below.
I think so. Medical advancements are pretty significant every year, so I can see something like Biofoam eventually being used as a quick and temporary fix to ensure patients can get to a full medical facility.
bio foam or biomedical foam has allready been invented the only problem is getting it out its true “google it”
That’s a real thing boyyo! ain’t the future neat?
The idea for something like that has been around since at least the '80s, actually. Hemostatic dressings don’t exactly have all the properties of biofoam but they do stop severe bleeding by promoting rapid blood clotting.
Biofoam is far to be developed yet, the gels that are available now are hemostatic agents that help clotting by accelerating processes in the coagulation cascade (the most recent replacing them to a degree with synthetic forms that make the process faster), this JUST prevent bleeding, and somewhat an uncontrolled thrombosis that may lead to another problems. The second type of gels are used in damaged tissue (for example 2nd and 3rd degree burn patients or frostbite) to stimulate (not replace) tissue regeneration, but this helps just to a certain extent because human body is composed of more than 2,000 types of tissues, and in no way it regenerate a whole tissue layer, it just help the “normal” process of generating scar tissue. So a gel that actually heals in the full extent of the word as of now is far from reality.
Biofoam is actually already in use in US military at least in certain units. It’s pretty dam cool
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Though then again not cool when you actually have to use it.