Israel has many ingenious inventions and life-saving products are no exception. Whenever natural disasters occur in any country, Israeli rescue team is always the first to response and set off, they also bring many equipment that are invented in Israel. Many convenient and efficient inventions not only used by the Israeli rescue teams, but also by the world’s first aid rescue personnel.
1. WaterGen – bringing water out of thin air
Access to clean drinking water is a pressing problem after disasters. Water-Gen is the widely used solution for international aid workers, it’s a portable machine that draws drinkable water from the atmosphere, or purifies existing water.
In November 2014, Foreign Policy magazine selected the company’s founders as one of the “100 Leaders of the Year” and received the year 2014 Frost & Sullivan European Technology Innovation Leadership Award .
2. Pocket BVM
Following a earthquake in Nepal, the Israeli volunteer relief workers developed this medical innovative products – Pocket Pocket oxygen mask. This is an essential equipment for resuscitation and respiratory support in portable version.
The Hatzalah emergency care staff in Israel has contributed significantly to the invention of this product, and now the product is also adopted by the US military, NATO forces, Israeli Defense Forces and civilian emergency medical team. BVM can be folded into small size that the space which 20 units take is equal to 2 units of ordinary size, so that emergency personnel can carry more things in shorter time under the pressure.
3. Backpack size rescue device SkySaver
During the 911 incident, many people who trapped in high-floor jumped off the building because they couldn’t stand the high temperature of fire. An Israeli is inspired by spiders and invented SkySaver personal self-help equipment, it can take up til weigh 130 kg from the 120th floor to safely evacuate. It looks like a backpack and contains a fire-retardant rope which is necessary in high-temperature environment.
4. Israel bandages
Many emergency care products and a variety of wound covering products originate from Emergency Bandage Company (the Israeli bandage), inventor of the former Israeli military medical staff – Bernard Barnatan, the products are used in more than 50 countries around the world as the first response to hemorrhagic wound, thanks to its patented pressure application.
5. Instant Rescue and Injury Transport
Developed by the Israeli army and US Army veterans, the company manufactures a series of lightweight rescue harnesses, including the world’s smallest downhill straps that was used to save miners trapped in South African mines in 2013.
The company also manufactures a lightweight transport products for casualties, it allows one person to carry an unconscious person like a “humanoid backpack.”
6. Bone Injection Gun (automatic bone infusion device)
Health care providers often have to inject drugs before evacuation to help recover or prevent blood contamination from hemorrhagic wounds. However, in many emergency situations, such as in the dark or when the patient is pressed under the rubble, to intravenous injection is very difficult, or even impossible.
Therefore, when the world’s first automated intra-articular infusion system was introduced in 1994, it is now used by more than 55 countries to introduce drugs directly into the bone marrow, as effective as intravenous injection.
