What if a small sponge could mean the difference between life and death? A plug for life-threatening situations, XSTAT technology can plug a gunshot wound within a mere 20 seconds. Made by ...

For combat medics, every minute matters in the fight to save wounded soldiers. John Steinbaugh is working to help win that fight. A former Army Special Operations medic himself, Steinbaugh and ...

WILSONVILLE, Ore. - It's the sponge that may save your life one day. The XStat, a syringe full of specially crafted compressed sponges, is a new medical device developed by Wilsonville startup RevMedx ...

A simple new method could revolutionize battlefield medicine: a syringe filled with injectable sponges, shot directly into a wound to stop massive bleeding -- a major cause of combat fatalities. The ...