Kaolin in combat

• Autores: Kasia Patel
• Localización: Industrial Minerals, ISSN 0019-8544, Nº. 571, 2015 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Abril)
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Paramedics at the scene used QuikClot, a blood clotting product that had, at the time, just been added to its ambulance kits to stop the bleeding. Mark Escott, medical director for the Montgomery County Hospital District, told news reporters at ABC Eyewitness News following the event that without access to QuikClot technology, a patient in a similar situation could have died.

    QuikClot is manufactured by Connecticut, US-headquartered medical device company, Z-Medica, which, at the start of March, signed a distribution agreement with Tryco Inc. to make the QuikClot product line available to the Department of Defense (DoD), Department of Veteran Affairs and other US Government medical treatment facilities.

    "Our QuikClot Combat Gauze earned its stripes on the front line with our military, helping to save the lives of those injured in battle," Z-Medica's CEO, Stephen Fanning, said. "We are pleased that our haemostatic products will now be available in VA facilities here at home."