Pigs used to help troops learn how to treat battlefield injuries | L.A. NOW | Los Angeles Times

Links shared publicly online about this topic.

  • 1,875
    total visits

Pigs used to help troops learn how to treat battlefield injuries | L.A. NOW | Los Angeles Times

latimesblogs.latimes.com

The Marine Corps is using live pigs in a training exercise to teach Navy corpsmen and doctors and some infantry Marines how to treat battlefield injuries such as wounds and profuse bleeding. The pigs are euthanized afterward. The training, conducted...

View full resource at latimesblogs.latimes.com

Tags: Emergency, Bleeding, Wound, Exercise and Fitness, Doctor

  • Share

Most Recently Shared on July 24, 2009 at 4:47 am By:

drrobs Dr. Robert B. Sheely

Pigs used to help troops learn how to treat battlefield injuries http://bit.ly/jokCQ

3 years ago...

Advertisement