Navy adopts insane battlefield blood transfusion technique from the Army Rangers
"The more people who are familiar with the training, the more lives we can save."
By David Roza February 03, 2021
The Navy is churning out corpsmen who are trained in a brutally effective new blood transfusion technique, one where corpsmen resupply an injured service member with blood drawn straight out of someone else’s veins while they’re still on the battlefield.
The new technique, called “Valkyrie†in the Navy, was adopted from the Army’s Ranger O Low Titer Whole Blood Program, which saved a Ranger’s life during a firefight in Afghanistan in early 2020.
Instead of having to wait for a medevac, which takes 36 minutes on average, a critically-injured service member can now receive fresh blood from a buddy right on the battlefield. The technique saves precious minutes in the race against time to stabilize the patient.
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