Student designs life-saving device that rapidly stops bleeding from knife wounds
In the year ending March 2019, 259 people were killed in the UK using a sharp instrument, including knives and broken bottles.
A victim of a stabbing can bleed to death in just five minutes, so the priority for first responders is to control bleeding from the wound.
The police are often the first emergency personnel to arrive at a scene, so the speed at which they administer bleed prevention treatment is paramount to increasing the chances of survival.
Joseph Bentley, a final year Product Design and Technology student, has designed REACT – a new method for rapidly stopping catastrophic blood loss from a knife wound that could be carried out by first responding police officers while waiting for an ambulance.
More details on the invention of this life-saving device can be found here.