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		<title>Anti Bacterial Military Tent Walls</title>
		<link>http://defensetech.org/2011/10/11/anti-bacterial-military-tent-walls/</link>
		<comments>http://defensetech.org/2011/10/11/anti-bacterial-military-tent-walls/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Army]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Combat wounds and field hospital surgery: There are just so many opportunities for an injury to become infected. And infection, after a traumatic injury itself, is the leading cause of amputations, according to medical officials. The more you can eliminate opportunities for infection the better off the patient is going to be. At the annual [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>26</slash:comments>
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		<title>Exclusive Video: C-17 Aeromedical Evac</title>
		<link>http://defensetech.org/2011/08/15/exclusive-video-c-17-aeromedical-evac/</link>
		<comments>http://defensetech.org/2011/08/15/exclusive-video-c-17-aeromedical-evac/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghan Update]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Air Force]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[IED War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medic!]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please watch this very moving video showing the beginning of the Air Force’s C-17 aeromedical evacuation process that involves ferrying wounded troops from Afghanistan to medical centers in Landstuhl, Germany, and the United States. It gives us a small glimpse of the sacrifices made on the battlefield and the efforts made to ensure our troops [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>High-Tech Crystals May Help Diagnose Battlefield Brain Injuries</title>
		<link>http://defensetech.org/2010/12/03/high-tech-crystals-may-help-diagnose-battlefield-brain-injuries/</link>
		<comments>http://defensetech.org/2010/12/03/high-tech-crystals-may-help-diagnose-battlefield-brain-injuries/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 19:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contingency Ops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gadgets and Gear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IED War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medic!]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://defensetech.org/?p=10558</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For years, Pentagon officials have been worried about troops who have survived an IED blast seemingly ok, but are left suffering from serious concussions and worse. Now, there may be a way for medics to quickly and easily identify troops that have these injuries. These invisible wounds have a cumulative effect, with each successive head injury [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Combat Stress? There’s an App for That</title>
		<link>http://defensetech.org/2010/10/26/combat-stress-theres-an-app-for-that/</link>
		<comments>http://defensetech.org/2010/10/26/combat-stress-theres-an-app-for-that/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 23:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Reed</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gadgets and Gear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medic!]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Check this out. The Pentagon’s effort to help troops manage the emotional strains of combat took another step into the 21st Century today with the rollout of the T2 Mood Tracker smartphone app. Developed by the DoD’s National Center for Telehealth and Technology, nicknamed T2, the app lets troops and loved ones record and monitor their emotional reactions to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>A Blood Transfusion in a Pill</title>
		<link>http://defensetech.org/2010/01/29/a-blood-transfusion-in-a-pill/</link>
		<comments>http://defensetech.org/2010/01/29/a-blood-transfusion-in-a-pill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>christian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gadgets and Gear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medic!]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Well, not quite, but close. Got a tip from a reader about a potentially revolutionary new drug that could prolong the life of a human who’s bleeding out from a severe wound. According to an article in the New Scientist, medical professionals are experimenting on a pill that can trick the body into thinking it’s [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>‘Pixie Dust’ May Regrow Fingers</title>
		<link>http://defensetech.org/2008/05/28/pixie-dust-may-regrow-fingers/</link>
		<comments>http://defensetech.org/2008/05/28/pixie-dust-may-regrow-fingers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 12:07:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paisley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medic!]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://deftech.usmilblog.com/?p=2868</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Interesting medical item running over at Military.com: (UPI) Doctors at Brook Army Medical Center are testing a regeneration powder that could help injured soldiers regrow fingers and other body parts lost in battle. The powder, nicknamed ‘Pixie Dust’ after the fairy dust that enabled children to fly in Disney’s Peter Pan, is made from tissue [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>28</slash:comments>
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		<title>New Tech for Wounded Warriors</title>
		<link>http://defensetech.org/2007/07/19/new-tech-for-wounded-warriors/</link>
		<comments>http://defensetech.org/2007/07/19/new-tech-for-wounded-warriors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paisley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medic!]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have a buddy who lost an arm to a mine in Vietnam and now heads the VA’s prosthetics programs. While hunting deer a couple of years ago in West Virginia he explained to me that although the new body armor has saved many lives in Iraq and Afghanistan it has also caused a greater [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Iraq’s Deadly Germs</title>
		<link>http://defensetech.org/2007/01/23/iraqs-deadly-germs/</link>
		<comments>http://defensetech.org/2007/01/23/iraqs-deadly-germs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2007 20:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hambling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medic!]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As anyone who’s ever read Guns, Germs, and Steel will tell you, bacteria and viruses have long been a part of combat — some times, the nastiest part. During the waning days of World War I, the flu sent 70,000 American troops to the hospital; one-third never recovered. In the Civil War, twice as many [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>60 Minutes Covers the “Golden Hour”</title>
		<link>http://defensetech.org/2006/10/30/60-minutes-covers-the-golden-hour/</link>
		<comments>http://defensetech.org/2006/10/30/60-minutes-covers-the-golden-hour/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2006 23:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>christian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medic!]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://deftech.usmilblog.com/?p=2202</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s no secret that the military’s trauma units have saved the lives of thousands of injured service members and Iraqi civilians whose wounds would likely have killed them in earlier conflicts. But last night, 60 Minutes ran a powerful 13 minute piece on the doctors, nurses and medics who operate in theater and on the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Insta-Blood for Israeli Troops</title>
		<link>http://defensetech.org/2006/07/25/insta-blood-for-israeli-troops/</link>
		<comments>http://defensetech.org/2006/07/25/insta-blood-for-israeli-troops/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2006 17:52:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david_axe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medic!]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://deftech.usmilblog.com/?p=2042</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“In about two years’ time, Israel Defense Forces soldiers may carry with them to the battlefield packets with their own powdered blood,” says Ha’Aretz. “The idea is to take a soldier’s blood, freeze it in laboratory conditions, take out the ice crystals leaving only the blood components. It will look like freeze-dried coffee in a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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