As you might imagine, the institutional review board is a fairly sophisticated committee with experienced research and regulatory people who meet on a regular basis. We, of course, did not intend to deploy any such committee to Iraq. |
Now we're still seeing patients who are dying of hemorrhagic shock from penetrating torso injuries that would not respond to a tourniquet, so that's an example of where our research priorities should be. They should be oriented toward those particular types of injuries and treating shock from those injuries because we don't have a good product for that. That's the sort of important information that we need to get out of this type of analysis. |
There are a number of data sources that would have been irretrievably lost unless there were investigators who were actually deployed, looking out for preserving the data for later review. |
With a war ongoing, we need to be able to provide fast feedback for troops in the field as well as to people making decisions about research priorities. |