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Treating complex trauma injuries on the battlefield is challenging. Two critical challenges are blood loss and hypothermia. An innovative solution is now in use on the Gaza front thanks to an Israeli startup and a physician-scientist from Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam), in Haifa, Israel.

Grandma Lynette Hoffman-Elharar remembers a time when she could not hold a glass of water or draw a straight line. Now, after undergoing a noninvasive procedure at Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam) in Haifa, Israel, she is knitting woolen beanies for IDF soldiers.

Lee Shahaf, an occupational therapist at Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam) in Haifa, Israel, has been serving as a casualty officer since she was called up for reserves at the beginning of the war. Now her role at Rambam is two-fold: volunteering as a bone-marrow donor and, most notably, becoming a lifesaving match for a woman in need.

The staff at Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam) in Haifa, Israel know that weathering wars, traumatic events, and complex stressful situations is part of the job. Nevertheless, the horrific attacks of October 7 on Israeli citizens created an existential crisis for many whose day-to-day work requires showing a brave face for the benefit of the public.

Over the past month, medical teams at Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam) in Haifa, Israel has been providing essential training and simulations in life-saving techniques to medical officers in the field and at the hospital.

Dr. Arik Schechter, an attending physician in the Department of Urology at Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam) in Haifa, Israel has been serving in the IDF deep inside Gaza since the outbreak of the Swords of Iron War. With three sons and a son-in-law also serving, perhaps it should not have been such a surprise when he crossed paths with one of his sons in the fighting.

The International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women is observed annually on November 25. Yesterday, in the shadow of events leading to the Swords of Iron war, Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam) in Haifa, Israel, marked the day.

Hundreds of employees from Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam) in Haifa, Israel, together with patients and visitors, gathered together on November 23 and participated in a solidarity rally with the families of the hostages abducted by Hamas on October 7.