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o celebrate the 66th Israel
Independence Day on May 6,
ISRAEL21c rounded up 18 in-
novations from Israel specifically
designed to save lives — some
already on the market and some coming
soon.
In Hebrew, the number 18 corresponds
to the word chai (life). We're sure you will
share its pride in Israeli ingenuity benefiting
humankind everywhere.

1. The First Care Emergency Bandage (also

known as the "Israeli bandage"), invented
by an Israeli military medic, is used to
stop bleeding from hemorrhagic wounds
in trauma situations. Credited for saving
the life of U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle
Giffords in a 2011 shooting, the bandage
is widely used by military medics and
civilian first-responders the world over.

2. A fatal car crash can happen in a split
second. That's why Jerusalem-based
Mobileye technology — for identifying
and alerting to driving hazards — is being
built into virtually every new vehicle in
the world. Mobileye is the largest private
high-tech company in Israel and the
world's largest R&D center for artificial
vision.

Sepsis is a top killer in hospitals.

3. SensAheart, a

4. Tel Aviv's Cheetah
Medical invented
the NICOM non-

Agilite's instant harness

device that can open an airway by
imitating a jaw-thrust maneuver while
protecting the cervical spine en route to
the hospital.

product made
by the Israeli
diagnostic tech-
nology company
Novamed, can be
used at home and
in the hospital to
detect a heart at-
tack coming on.

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each year. FOD-related damage caused
the supersonic jetliner Concorde to crash
in 2000, killing 113 people.

9. Hyginex makes a smart bracelet to be

6. The Agilite Instant Harness, the world's

Sensing a heart attack
in progress. Image via
Shutterstock.com

invasive cardiac
output monitor to prevent sepsis, a life-

threatening blood infection that causes
one in four hospital deaths and is one of
the top 10 causes of death in the United
States. Using a patented technology, the
NICOM monitors hemodynamics — the
movement of blood from the heart to
the body's organs — via four sensors and
enables medical professionals to better
diagnose and treat the patient.

5. The adjustable, disposable Lubo Airway
Collar by Inovytec is a novel airway
management and cervical collar device
for cases of severe trauma to the neck
and spine. It is the first-ever non-invasive

smallest Class II rappelling harness, saved
the lives of South African miners trapped
underground in 2013. The same Israeli
company also makes the Injured Person-
nel Carrier, a novel hands-free device that
allows one rescuer to carry an incapaci-
tated person like a "human backpack."

7. The Babysense breathing monitor by

HiSense alerts parents of respiratory
cessation (apnea) in babies. The Israeli
breakthrough technology has helped
protect more than 600,000 babies from
crib death around the world and has been
copied by numerous other manufactur-
ers.

8. XSight Systems' award-winning FODetect
advanced runway sensors keep runways
around the world safe from foreign object
debris (FOD), birds and wildlife with a
unique hybrid optical-radar remote-
sensing technology. Direct damage to
aircraft caused by FOD is estimated to
cost the aviation industry some $4 billion

worn by every staff member in a hospital
to make sure that all personnel wash
their hands after contact with patients.
Clean hands can practically eliminate
most hospital-borne infections. Nurses,
doctors and even candy-stripers know it,
but Hyginex enforces it.

10.When the iMayDay iPhone app senses
that your car has been in a collision, it
sets off an alarm and emails five prede-
termined addresses (or generates up to
50 SMS messages) to inform emergency
workers and/or loved ones about the ac-
cident. It works anywhere in the world.

11. PerSys Medical's Blizzard Survival line of

products, including blankets and jackets,
leads the market in hypothermia care.
The Blizzard Jacket was pivotal last March
in the rescue of a mother and son by
the Llanberis Mountain Rescue Team in
Wales. The lifesaving wraps withstand
temperatures as low as -4 F/-20 C.

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