This is eight year old Benji. Two weeks before
that video was taken, Benji was brought into emergency
vet hospital in pretty bad shape for a stabbing wound
that occurred between the 12th and 13th rib. It
was something where we had a massively come from the
intercostal artery that we needed to control. But we're
also, we're dealing with an open chest wound to
control the bleeding. Veterinary surgeon, Matthew Morgan's used
a medical gel made in Brooklyn by a Brooklynite.
Better gel is a blend of two polymers that come
out of algae to effectively long chains of sugar that
allow you when applied to a bleeding wound to nearly
instantly stop that bleeding. Joe Mandolin co founded Cray
Inc when he was just a freshman at N Y
U and started working on the gel. Over the
first decade, we spent a lot of time making
the product ready for market, making sure that the
rental of the testing that was necessary in order to
support the safety and the efficacy of the product and
building our manufacturing, the gel was approved for animal
use. And in 2020 he says they started distributing
it to vets like Dr Morgan's, it just gives
us a little bit more comfort when we're dealing with
areas that we could see a massive blade and being
able to control that. If we do see that
Mandolin is now working on getting FDA approval for a
human version of the jail, which he hopes will
one day help troops in the battlefield is something that
can drastically not only save patient lives but allow the
clinician be able to do their jobs better for now
though. It's helping warriors like Benji get back to
what they do best.