The FDA just cleared 'Traumagel,' a wound-treating gel with 'the color and texture of hummus' that sounds like a real-life FPS medkit

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The FDA just cleared 'Traumagel,' a wound-treating gel with 'the color and texture of hummus' that sounds like a real-life FPS medkit
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Jody's first computer was a Commodore 64, so he remembers having to use a code wheel to play Pool of Radiance. A former music journalist who interviewed everyone from Giorgio Moroder to Trent Reznor, Jody also co-hosted Australia's first radio show about videogames, Zed Games.

, last Wednesday the FDA gave medical device clearance to a product called Traumagel that's designed to prevent bleeding and is basically a real-life version of Halo's Biofoam. Only instead of coming in a camo-green cylindrical canister, it comes in a stimpak-looking plastic dispenser,"a 30-ml syringe of an algae- and fungi-based hemostatic gel that's the color and texture of hummus.

"If you have a roll of gauze, you have to pack that into a bullet wound inch by inch, and you have to ensure it's making contact with whatever's bleeding," said Joe Landolina, founder of Traumagel creator Cresilon."It's painful for the patient and it's dangerous because it can expose an EMT or emergency physician to shrapnel or shards of bone. finds its way to where it needs to go.

It's not quite the stimpak that instantly heals a broken leg in Fallout 3, or the FPS medkit that restores you to perfect health simply by walking over it, but it's surely only a matter of time, right?Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.Jody's first computer was a Commodore 64, so he remembers having to use a code wheel to play Pool of Radiance.

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