It's possibly outside the scope of their training and just not what they are there for.
This device may be technically cool but simply not practical in application for a long list of reasons. Logistics, what works in practice given humans being human, etc may make this a nice idea in theory but not practice.
Stab wounds are particularly ugly. I used to pay accident claims and our payouts were not designed to adequately address stab wounds. Pay was based on length of the cut requiring sutures and stab wounds are often small in size, may go unsutured while they try to prevent gangrene from taking hold and have various other challenges to both treatment and trying to figure out how to classify them for purposes of trying to pay for the treatment.
I'm sympathetic to the inventors horror at stab wounds but a lot of medical stuff is just not as simple and straight forward as we would like it to be.
I'm not trying discourage the use of this. I have no power to make policy or decisions of that sort. HN is just an online discussion forum and I know something about medical topics and for the conversation to be at all meaningful, you at least need to be talking about what is actually being proposed. I was just trying to nudge the discussion in that direction.
This device may be technically cool but simply not practical in application for a long list of reasons. Logistics, what works in practice given humans being human, etc may make this a nice idea in theory but not practice.
Stab wounds are particularly ugly. I used to pay accident claims and our payouts were not designed to adequately address stab wounds. Pay was based on length of the cut requiring sutures and stab wounds are often small in size, may go unsutured while they try to prevent gangrene from taking hold and have various other challenges to both treatment and trying to figure out how to classify them for purposes of trying to pay for the treatment.
I'm sympathetic to the inventors horror at stab wounds but a lot of medical stuff is just not as simple and straight forward as we would like it to be.
I'm not trying discourage the use of this. I have no power to make policy or decisions of that sort. HN is just an online discussion forum and I know something about medical topics and for the conversation to be at all meaningful, you at least need to be talking about what is actually being proposed. I was just trying to nudge the discussion in that direction.