Having never used blood clotting granuals I do have a few questions if I may...
Does the granual completely clot the wound and hemostasis of the vessle or does it just promote platelet aggregation? If these granual were to get into the blood stream, would that not thrombos the closest distal vessel? What I am getting at is that this should have been pulled out of the field a lot sooner then (what I am assuming is) very recently? I mean if all patients that clotting granuals suddenly developed PE or DVT's or even something as benign as echymosis distal to a wound, shouldnt someone have questioned it long before it was adopted into the military theater? I am not trying to be disrespectful asking this, but I am truely concerned as this is not common knowledge as quite a few of my friends carry the granules in their first aid kits.