WASHINGTON - A Navy plan to test a blood substitute on civilian trauma victims should remain on hold, federal health advisers recommended Thursday, saying the experiment’s risks outweigh its benefits.
The nonbinding vote appears to be the latest blow to the Navy, which has repeatedly sought Food and Drug Administration approval to test the product, derived from cow blood, on roughly 1,100 trauma victims in emergency situations. It proposes doing so without obtaining the customary informed consent of patients...
This is such a bad idea I don't know where to start.
Even if the patient survived the first transfusion, there would be an antibody response, such that the second exposure would kill.
Then there's the little detail of testing the agent without patient consent- or knowledge.
This is exactly the sort of thing no one believes when you tell them.
It looks like the FDA stopped it this time. But just wait. As soon as the company making it figures out who to buy, the D.o'D. will try it. And the inevitable deaths will be hushed as a matter of national security.
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