I just read about this stuff in Outdoor Life magazine, and it looks like it might be real handy stuff to have around. Does anyone have any experience with it???

http://www.z-medica.com/

Cant say if I've ever heard of this stuff before, but I like the look of it a lot. It seems to be on a similar vein to dressings called Kaltostat. They are made from a compound called Calcium Alginate, apparently a derivative of seaweed. I wonder if this instant clot powder is similar.

Johno

I had a look around the site and it was quite interesting.

For their research animal models, I was surprised to see that in the group with standard dressing + vigorous resusitation, the mortality rate was higher than with standard dressing alone. Even the group with 2 dressings had a higher mortality than the single dressing alone.....

Even more surprising is that the group with vigorous resuscitation bled more after the standard dressing !! This is really rather strange. I certainly don't want to be vigorously resuscitated by these blokes! <img src="images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />

But the data for the ones using quik clot is rather impressive I must say......

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