Ground combat has been particularly brutal during this current war. According to reports, over 500 Israeli soldiers have serious injuries, many of which include full or partial amputation and permanent limb damage.

There is, however, one civilian doctor at Rabin Medical Center, who has been utilizing a method in her surgery that, to date, has saved the limbs of more than 35 Israeli soldiers.

Dr. Galit Sivak, Director of Rabin Medical Center's Vascular Surgery Department, has successfully performed limb saving surgeries on some of the most complicated and difficult injuries from this war. Dr. Sivak spoke of one specific patient who's injuries were so severe that she bypassed usual protocol and was able to save both the patient's damaged lungs and leg.

It's written in the books that, leave the leg alone, and when his lungs are better, then you can deal with the leg. But the leg is not going to wait for you," Dr. Sivak said.

Innovations on frontline medical aid have been critical in saving limbs which, in past wars, most likely would not have survived the transport from battlefield to surgery room. But now, medical devices created specifically to separate oxygen from the air to help ventilate wounded patients on site as well as drones bringing whole blood to the battlefield have allowed medics treating patients who are hemorrhaging immediately, without waiting countless hours to getting them to a hospital. This greatly increased the chances of saving the limbs.