Watertown's Arsenal Medical Developing Product to Save Troops Injured on the Battlefield
The company will develop a product to help treat soldiers' battlefield injuires.
Watertown's Arsenal Medical received a $15.5 million federal contract to develop a product that would help stop internal bleeding suffered by soldiers in the field. The contract is the second awarded to the company by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), according to a report in the Boson Business Journal. Arsenal Medical Inc. is headquartered in Watertown at 480 Arsenal St. The company's technology could address one of the largest causes of battlefield deaths, according to an Arsenal Medical press release. “Currently, there are no effective pre-hospital treatments available for intra-abdominal bleeding on the battlefield,” said Dr. David King a trauma surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital with significant combat …
