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New battlefield medical techniques saving lives
As battlefield medicine continues to progress, new medical techniques being developed are now saving patients previously thought unlikely to survive.
One such procedure, called REBOA (Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta), has now been used by US personnel for the first time in the field as part of ongoing ...
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