INTERNAL bleeding is an invisible, insidious killer. By the time most doctors spot it, it’s usually too late for the patient. But a new device that monitors the level of oxygen in the blood could give an early warning.
Diagnosing internal bleeding is difficult because of the way the body reacts to it. “You’d think it’d be easy to spot, but it’s far from it,” says John Heyworth, president of the British Association for Accident and Emergency Medicine and a consultant at Southampton General Hospital. “We desperately need a good way to do this.” A drop in blood pressure is…
