{"id":231613,"date":"2026-02-19T06:09:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T12:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/stopping-fatal-blood-loss-with-clay"},"modified":"2026-02-19T06:09:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T12:09:38","slug":"stopping-fatal-blood-loss-with-clay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/stopping-fatal-blood-loss-with-clay","title":{"rendered":"Stopping fatal blood loss with clay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/stopping-fatal-blood-loss-with-clay.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Traumatic injury is the third leading cause of death in the state of Texas, surpassing strokes, Alzheimer\u2019s disease and diabetes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A massive number of these deaths are the result of uncontrolled bleeding. \u201cSevere blood loss can rapidly lead to hemorrhagic shock,\u201d said Dr. Akhilesh Gaharwar, a biomedical engineering professor at Texas A&amp;M University. \u201cMany patients die within one to two hours of injury. This critical period is often referred to as the \u2018golden hour.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gaharwar and his fellow researchers in the biomedical engineering department have found a way to extend this golden hour\u2014using clay.<\/p>\n<p>Gaharwar, Dr. Duncan Maitland and Dr. Taylor Ware are developing a suite of <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2023-01-microneedle-bandage-blood-loss-wounds.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">injectable hemostatic bandages <\/a>\u2014biomedical materials that stop bleeding and promote blood to clot faster. Their research is specifically targeting deep internal bleeding where traditional methods like compression are not possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traumatic injury is the third leading cause of death in the state of Texas, surpassing strokes, Alzheimer\u2019s disease and diabetes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A massive number of these deaths are the result of uncontrolled bleeding. \u201cSevere blood loss can rapidly lead to hemorrhagic shock,\u201d said Dr. Akhilesh Gaharwar, a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}