The FDA has just approved 'Traumagel', a wound-treating product with a 'color and texture of hummus.' It sounds like an actual FPS medkit.

Fast Company reported that the FDA granted medical device clearance last Wednesday to a product named Traumagel, which is designed to stop bleeding. It's a real-life version Halo's Biofoam. It comes in a plastic dispenser that looks like a stimpak, not a cylindrical camo-green canister. The gel is the color and consistency of hummus and is made from algae and fungi.

Traumagel is a product designed to treat severe bleeding after a bullet injury. This would normally be treated by a product such as QuickClot or a gauze soaked in chemical clotting agents, or even good old-fashioned Superglue like in the episode of Poker Face.

Joe Landolina is the founder of Traumagel creator Cresilon. "It is painful for the patient, and it can be dangerous because it exposes an EMT or emergency doctor to shrapnel. "[Traumagel] gets to where it's needed."

Vetigel was used to treat injured animals before Traumagel could be approved for human use. It's okay to eat cat biscuits if it's OK for your cat. That's the excuse I used when I was a child. Landolina continued, "Ninety one percent of battlefield deaths are due to hemorrhage that can be prevented." If there was only a better product that could stop bleeding, then lives could be saved.

It's not the stimpak in Fallout 3 that instantly heals your broken leg, or the FPS medkit which restores you to perfect physical health by simply walking over it. But surely it's only a question of time.