WASHINGTON
A blood substitute the military wants to test on civilian trauma victims is urgently needed to save lives on the battlefield in places like Iraq, a Navy official told federal advisers Thursday.
Substitute, made from cow blood, urgently needed on battlefield in places like Iraq, a Navy official told federal advisers Thursday.
The Navy wants to test the product, derived from cow blood, on roughly 1,100 trauma victims in emergency situations. It proposes doing so without obtaining the customary informed consent of patients in advance.
Yikes! This is a tough one! While I agree that if a blood "substitue" will save our wounded..how great! To use this on people without their consent? Well now, that's a whole other issue isn't it? Catch-22?
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