"It's not uncommon in Israel today for a young man in his early 20s to be spotted on the streets with an amputated leg or serious wound. More than 500 Israeli soldiers have survived serious injuries fighting in Gaza, according to the military. Many of them endured catastrophic wounds that would have killed or maimed them in Israel's past wars, Israeli combat medics and surgeons say."
""If it was the last war, I would have ... lived all my life with one leg and one lung," said Nevo, a 25-year-old soldier who was badly wounded in an explosion in Gaza in late 2023. Nevo is among several dozen soldiers whose limbs were saved by an Israeli civilian surgeon who has shared her medical experience in the war with top doctors at the renowned Mayo Clinic in Minnesota."
More than 500 Israeli soldiers survived serious injuries in fighting in Gaza, many with catastrophic wounds that would have killed or maimed them in past wars. Medical advances and improved battlefield logistics have reduced fatalities, including drones capable of parachuting whole blood units to wounded soldiers and systems that store whole blood at proper temperatures. Combat medics previously used freeze-dried plasma; whole blood is now credited with saving lives. Surgeons applied lessons from treating large numbers of wounded, and an Israeli civilian surgeon shared wartime medical experience with Mayo Clinic doctors. A new military protocol restricts publishing identities of soldiers who served in Gaza to protect them from potential arrest abroad.
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