The Air Force’s Force Protection Battlelab has created a prototype device—the simplified automated ventilator, or SAVe—to aid medics in the field. A medic in the field can quickly set up the portable battery-powered ventilator to help one wounded troop breathe, while the medic tends to another life-threatening injury. The new battlefield medical device is just one of several the battlelab, based at Lackland AFB, Tex., has produced or has in the works. Read more here.
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