DOCTORS may eventually use sound waves to halt haemorrhages deep within the
body without having to slice into a patient.
There is no widespread method for stopping internal bleeding without surgery,
which is itself risky. As an alternative, some researchers are hoping to use
ultrasound to pinpoint, heat and cauterise internal wounds. But cooking tissue
in that way is too dangerous if bleeding occurs in areas such as the brain, or
if the problem is hard to pinpoint and doctors need to treat a large area of the
body.
Now a team from the University of Washington in Seattle has…
