Tiny balloon catheter stops bleeding, can help save lives of trauma patients

TORONTO — By the time Gaven Mayo got to a Montreal hospital after a bullet from a high-powered rifle ripped through his thigh, he had lost a massive amount of blood and by his own account was hovering between life and death.
But the 27-year-old from the Kahnawake First Nation attributes the fact that he didn’t die to a simple device that can immediately arrest severe bleeding, giving surgeons time to repair the damage from traumatic injuries and saving lives that otherwise might have