College student creates instant-healing gel to stop heavy bleeding
Published March 18, 2013
New York Post
A New York University student has cooked up a magic gel, which he says can stop even heavy bleeding — an invention that could make routine bandages obsolete.
Joe Landolina, 20, a NYU junior, says his Veti-Gel almost instantly closes and begins healing even major wounds to internal organs and key arteries.
“There’s really no way to quickly stop bleeding except to hold lots of gauze on a wound,” Landolina told The Post. “I thought if you could pour this gel into a wound, it would solidify and stop the bleeding.”
Landolina created the substance with Isaac Miller, a 2013 NYU grad.
The lifesaving goo is an artificial version of something called the extracellular matrix, which makes up the connective tissue that helps hold animal bodies together.
“We use plant-derived versions of the polymers that make up your skin,” the whiz kid said. “If they go into a wound, they build on existing polymers. It’s like it tells your body to stop bleeding.”
The aspiring scientist says he tested the stuff on rats and was able to stop bleeding instantly after slicing the rodents’ livers and carotid arteries.
After his rat experiments, Landolina moved on — to a slab of fresh pork loin — to create a video demonstration.
Click here to watch the video.
On the video, he cuts a deep slice into the pork while it’s being injected with “real pigs blood,” he said.
The blood initially flows freely, but amazingly stops after Landolina applies the gel and a second liquid, which speeds coagulation, bringing the bloodshed to a sudden stop.
Landolina and Miller will next test the gel on larger living animals, like pigs and sheep, under the supervision of Dr. Herbert Dardik, a cardiovascular surgeon at Englewood (NJ) Hospital.
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I've seen articles about this sort of thing before. I think they used ground up pig bone or cartilage or something. I don't know that it was designed for use during surgery, but more as a battlefield quick fix until you can get to a surgeon. Still interesting.
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I recall something similar being used to promote regrowth of a finger.necoras wrote:I've seen articles about this sort of thing before. I think they used ground up pig bone or cartilage or something. I don't know that it was designed for use during surgery, but more as a battlefield quick fix until you can get to a surgeon. Still interesting.
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Update and related via Brian Wang:
March 22, 2013
Veti-Gel Instantly Stops Bleeding and Closes Wounds of Any Size it Can Cover
Joe Landolina of the company Suneris and his colleagues were able to seal deep cuts into rats’ livers and carotid arteries in tests. Veti-Gel is said to dramatically speed the body’s natural clotting, closing wounds in seconds. It instantly tells the body, 'OK, stop the bleeding,' but also it starts the healing process.
"I have seen (Veti-Gel) close any size wound that it is applied to," said Landolina. "As long as you can cover it, it can close it,” he added.
The substance, a plant-based synthetic form of a compound in blood that triggers clotting, imitates the body's own healing chemistry to rapidly close punctures to soft tissue.
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DARPA has a Foam to Stop Internal Bleeding
Two liquids that turn into a solid foam after being injected into the body may one day save the lives of injured soldiers and wounded civilians by slowing internal bleeding so that they can make it to a hospital. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded Arsenal Medical a $15.5 million grant in December to further develop the foam technology, which would be delivered to a wounded soldier through the belly button.
Currently, battlefield medics and paramedics have no tools to stop internal bleeding before an injured person reaches a hospital. “The only thing you can do for that is get to the hospital as soon as possible,” says David King, a trauma surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital and a co-investigator on the foam project. King, who has served as a military doctor in both Iraq and Afghanistan, says death in these military contexts from uncontrolled internal bleeding is a “regular and routine occurrence.”
“Upwards of a quarter of the people who end up dying in combat could potentially have survived,” says Robert Gerhardt, a physician-scientist at the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, who is not involved with the foam project. “We can tie a tourniquet around an arm or leg, but when we get to parts of the body that are not accessible—the abdomen, chest, and to some extent within the head—these are areas of the body we can’t get to directly unless we have a surgeon to open them up, find the bleeding vessel, and clamp it,” he says.
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Apply pressure: As shown in this schematic, the Arsenal foam technology is injected through the belly button (top). Once mixed, the two liquids create a foam which eventually expands throughout the abdominal cavity (bottom left). The foam molds to inner structures of the abdomen (bottom right).
March 22, 2013
Veti-Gel Instantly Stops Bleeding and Closes Wounds of Any Size it Can Cover
Joe Landolina of the company Suneris and his colleagues were able to seal deep cuts into rats’ livers and carotid arteries in tests. Veti-Gel is said to dramatically speed the body’s natural clotting, closing wounds in seconds. It instantly tells the body, 'OK, stop the bleeding,' but also it starts the healing process.
"I have seen (Veti-Gel) close any size wound that it is applied to," said Landolina. "As long as you can cover it, it can close it,” he added.
The substance, a plant-based synthetic form of a compound in blood that triggers clotting, imitates the body's own healing chemistry to rapidly close punctures to soft tissue.
Video
DARPA has a Foam to Stop Internal Bleeding
Two liquids that turn into a solid foam after being injected into the body may one day save the lives of injured soldiers and wounded civilians by slowing internal bleeding so that they can make it to a hospital. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded Arsenal Medical a $15.5 million grant in December to further develop the foam technology, which would be delivered to a wounded soldier through the belly button.
Currently, battlefield medics and paramedics have no tools to stop internal bleeding before an injured person reaches a hospital. “The only thing you can do for that is get to the hospital as soon as possible,” says David King, a trauma surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital and a co-investigator on the foam project. King, who has served as a military doctor in both Iraq and Afghanistan, says death in these military contexts from uncontrolled internal bleeding is a “regular and routine occurrence.”
“Upwards of a quarter of the people who end up dying in combat could potentially have survived,” says Robert Gerhardt, a physician-scientist at the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, who is not involved with the foam project. “We can tie a tourniquet around an arm or leg, but when we get to parts of the body that are not accessible—the abdomen, chest, and to some extent within the head—these are areas of the body we can’t get to directly unless we have a surgeon to open them up, find the bleeding vessel, and clamp it,” he says.
Image
Apply pressure: As shown in this schematic, the Arsenal foam technology is injected through the belly button (top). Once mixed, the two liquids create a foam which eventually expands throughout the abdominal cavity (bottom left). The foam molds to inner structures of the abdomen (bottom right).
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