FDA Approves Handheld Scanner to Detect Brain Bleeding on
Battlefield The handheld Infrascanner can help detect bleeding
in the brain on the battlefield. Battlefield blasts that leave
soldiers dazed can prove lethal if they have caused bleeding in
the brain and the diagnosis isn't made in time to treat it. Now,
more U.S. military lives may be saved after the Food and Drug
Administration's approval last week of the first handheld device
to detect life-threatening brain bleeding. The battery-powered
Infrascanner could put the diagnostic power of a hospital's
computed tomography (CT) machines into the hands of U.S.
military corpsmen and medics at sea or on distant battlefields.
A quick diagnosis can make all the difference between life and
death for U.S. Navy sailors and U.S. Marines , who may fight far
from hospitals or aboard smaller Navy ships that don't carry
such medical scanners. "If it goes undiagnosed and things look
normal, and maybe a day later, you die of cerebral hemorrhage,"
said Michael Given, prog