{"id":269195,"date":"2010-02-02T16:26:41","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T21:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=21348"},"modified":"2010-02-02T16:26:41","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T21:26:41","slug":"drug-could-turn-soldiers-into-super-survivors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/269195","title":{"rendered":"Drug Could Turn Soldiers Into Super-Survivors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Linda Geddes for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg20527454.200-drug-could-turn-soldiers-into-supersurvivors.html\">New Scientist<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A lucky few seem to be able to laugh in the face of death, surviving massive blood loss and injuries that would kill others. Now a drug has been found that might turn virtually any injured person into a &#8220;super-survivor&#8221;, by preventing certain biological mechanisms from shutting down.<\/p>\n<p>The drug has so far only been tested in animals. If it has a similar effect in humans, it could vastly improve survival from horrific injuries, particularly in soldiers, by allowing them to live long enough to make it to a hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Loss of blood is the main problem with many battlefield injuries, and a blood transfusion the best treatment, although replacing lost fluid with saline can help. But both are difficult to transport in sufficient quantities. &#8220;You can&#8217;t&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Linda Geddes for New Scientist: A lucky few seem to be able to laugh in the face of death, surviving massive blood loss and injuries that would kill others. Now a drug has been found that might turn virtually any injured person into a &#8220;super-survivor&#8221;, by preventing certain biological mechanisms from shutting down. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}