The T-shirt is capable of recording bullet wounds and blast injuries and transmitting the information to military medics monitoring troops from a safe distance.
Secondary blast injuries are caused by flying objects such as shrapnel.
FORBES: Blast Victims: What We Know About The Kinds Of Injuries That Occurred In Boston
As news from Boston continues to untangle, one thing that is clear is that the two explosions at the Boston Marathon caused extensive blast injuries.
FORBES: Blast Victims: What We Know About The Kinds Of Injuries That Occurred In Boston
Shortly after the explosion, more than 60 patients streamed into Hillcrest Hospital in Waco, suffering from "blast injuries, orthopedic injuries (and) a lot of lacerations, " said hospital CEO Glenn Robinson.
Six of the 12 people hurt in the blast suffered serious injuries, they added.
They're blast-type injuries and severe burns that tend to be in relatively fit young men and women.
Harris Tatakis, a former corporal in the Royal Marines, received multiple injuries in an IED blast.
The cleric survived the blast at his office with minor injuries, but two of his bodyguards and a driver were killed.
Sergeant Gabriel Herrera, who, in his first deployment, became a recipient of the Purple Heart, due to injuries sustained from an IED blast to his vehicle.
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More than 100 people are being treated in hospital for injuries sustained as a result of the blast, Many of them were hit by falling rubble and masonry.
But doctors reported that the injuries they were treating, in general, came from the blast, not chemical exposure.
While many reports focused on amputation injuries, severe internal damage can occur with little or no external indication due to blast injury.
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