Wartime Medical Innovations Slash Israel’s Troop Mortality Rate

 

• Custom-designed helmets and dog tags with medical data
• New techniques lead to record low battlefield fatalities

Custom-designed helmets that stave off major brain injuries. Mobile blood banks and preliminary surgery on the battlefield. Dog tags that broadcast medical data. Evacuation by helicopter to hospitals, measured in minutes. Fentanyl lollipops to ease the pain.

As Israel plows into the second year of open-ended war on several fronts, its military doctors have been innovating trauma care on the fly and grimly boast a record survival rate. That, in turn, may help shore up public support in Israel for a conflict that has inflicted the country’s worst losses in decades.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-22/wartime-medical-innovations-slash-israel-s-troop-mortality-rate