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How two ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø outsiders transformed treatment for traumatic blood loss and fought Army insiders

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This hour, an invention that transformed care for traumatic injuries. Charles Barber’s new book, , details how Frank Hursey discovered that a mineral called zeolite could help stop excessive bleeding, and the challenge he and his partner, Bart Gullong, faced in getting the invention to take hold in trauma care.

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  • Charles Barber: Nonfiction author, Writer in Residence at Wesleyan University, and Lecturer in Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine. His new book is In The Blood: How Two Outsiders Solved a Centuries-Old Medical Mystery and Took on the US Army 
  • Bart Gullong: Co-founder and former CEO of Z-Medica, who worked to get QuickClot widely adopted
  • Frank Hursey: Founder of On-Site Gas, Co-Founder of Z-Medica, and the inventor of QuickClot

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