When I hear about an interesting technology project, I’m always thinking that DARPA is involved as there guys always come up with the best of things which is absolutely normal due to the enormous funding coming from tax payers. DARPA’s latest project is called DBAC, or Deep Bleeder Acoustic Coagulation, and it consists of a device which stops internal bleeding almost instantaneously.

Internal bleeding is very dangerous and it’s very important to cure soldiers wounded in battle, but also for people who suffer car or other accidents. Irreversible hemorrhagic shock can be caused by internal bleeding which can kill soldiers, and now DARPA is trying to develop a portable device that will detect and stop the bleeding using ultrasounds.

DARPA has contracted the University of Washington’s Centre for Industrial and Medical Ultrasound and Texas A&M to develop the DBAC cuff which should be semi-automatic and any soldier with minimal training will be able to operate it.

Like aforementioned, it’s very important to cure soldiers with internal bleeding as they could lose up to 25% of their blood until they are evacuated from the battlefield. When a medic will turn on and apply the DBAC device to the injured soldier, the cuff will automatically locate the internal bleeding and aftet it finds it, many doses of high-intensity ultrasound will be sent to the bleeding source. This will coagulate the blood therefore the bleeding will be stopped and hopefully the soldier will recover from his wounds.

According to DARPA, a prototype of the DBAC cuff will be completed in 18 months time and only then we will know if internal bleedings can be stopped immediately. Hopefully, this device will help our soldiers from the battlefront.

via CNET