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The typical police cruiser has a much more severe space premium, particularly for first aid supplies. An ambulance is a whole box full of first aid supplies.


It’s about the size of a hand drill and can probably be miniaturized further, heck you might not even need to inflate with an electric pump, you can probably have a small electronically controlled valve and a CO2 canister similar to those used for quickly inflating bike tires.

The only real issue I see with this is it’s actual applicability most stab victims get stabbed multiple times, often in the same area plugging one hole might not do you good when there are 5 more around it, heck the balloon might exacerbate the bleeding from adjacent injuries.


That is no doubt true. And much more pertinent to the suggested use case.




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