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I am not a doctor, but from what I've read, treating an infection is usually considered much less of a priority by emergency responders than stopping severe ble
by gnosis 14y ago
I am not a doctor, but from what I've read, treating an infection is usually considered much less of a priority by emergency responders than stopping severe bleeding.
You can bleed to death in a few minutes. Few if any infections are going to be that fast-acting. So stopping severe bleeding will hopefully buy you some time to get to the ER, where they'll pump you full of antibiotics if they have to.
- andyl 14y agoYep. Emergency responders use the mnenomic "ABC" to guide their actions in a life-threatening situation: Airway, Breathing, Circulation. Infection is not on the list. Military sometimes uses "CABC" - Catastrophic Hemorrhage, Airway, Breathing, Circulation. This gel would address the "C"'s in an emergency situation.
- danielweber 14y agoUnfortunately antibiotics are becoming less and less useful. In 50 years we could be back to where a cut on your toe is life-threatening. :(
- stevenameyer 14y agoI don't know if it'll ever get so bad that a small cut could be life-threatening but it certainly is a large issue. People need to learn that they need to take the antibiotics for as long the doctor told them to, deciding to stop taking them cause you don't feel so bad anymore is the main reason for drug-resistant bacterial strains.
- lilsunnybee 14y agoAnd the use of antibiotics in food production: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtherapeutic_antibiotic_use_in_swine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtherapeutic_antibiotic_use_i...
- learc83 14y agoFrom what I've read the antibiotic resistant strains of bacterial are outcompeted by non-antibiotic strains when not in the presence of antibiotics. So if antibiotics become completely ineffective and people stop using them, the resistant strains will die off eventually, possibly quickly.
- tomjen3 14y agoYou are on a board communicating with members of the species homo sapience, the only species ever to have developed flight, increased its max speed by more than ten times and gone to the moon in less than a century. You communicate with these people by seending electronic interference that not one of them can see, feel, hear or touch but which they none-the-less can pickup, route, transmit, copy and send around the world -- in less time than it takes you to clap your hands. And you worry about what will happen in fifty years.