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Blood Clotting beads

    There is a simpler way to treat exsanguination and problems due to severe hemorrhages; QuikClot® is about to be introduces to the market in Guadalajara, this product has the approval of the US food and drug administration since the year 2002, and it has proved to be effective to stop severe bleeding and exsanguination when ever conventional treatment have failed, this is the reason why American Soldiers in combat at Iraq carry a bag of this product as part of their personal equipment.

    Just recentely, a product presentation took place in the state of Jalisco, grathering authorities of the municipal medical services from Guadalajara and Zapopan which are interested in acquiring this product.

    At this meeting Dr. Daniel Coster Director of Medical Services anr Emergenices from the East Pennsylvania Hospital, narrated the first case he solved thanks to this product : A woman with a bleeding a wound on the femoral vein and artery arrived to the emergency room with a bleeding that could not be controlled, her perssure was dropping, a paramedic brought a QuikClot® envelope wich they used and in eleven minutes the bleeding seaced completely. One person has proximately 70 cubic centimeters of blood per eache Kg of weight therefore a person who wheights 60 kg would have about 4 200 cubic centimeters of blood, this means that in case of severe arterial injury there would be a loss of 20% of blood in a minute.

    QuikClot® is a product that accelerates the increase of the platelets and clotting factors explanied Jefrey Horn operation Director for Z- Medica, when applied on an open wound the granulated product acts as a sponge absorbing the blood fluids and concentrating the clotting agents, QuikClot® main ingredient is a synthetic derrivate of volcanic mineral highly absorbent, the beads contain internal and external pores that are able to grab the water molecules contained in the blood plasma, the US Navy has evidence that proves that one QuikClot® package is enough to treat a broken femnoral vein and artery. Representatives from this medical laboratory stated that the product has been named “lifesaver”. Doctor Coster confirmed that it is
actually effective.

Publication:
Periodico Publico, 20 de March del
2006, Seccion UNO Salud y Vida

 

 

Z-MEDICA CORP ANNOUNCES MEXICAN DISTRIBUTOR AND APPROVAL FOR ITS LIFESAVING QUIKCLOT® BRAND HEMOSTATIC AGENT

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASECONTACT:Team PR – 203-454-8880 Ellie Becker erb@teampr.com Melissa Diamond msd@teampr.com

    Guadalajara-based Loorita Met Medical Will Supply Breakthrough Blood Clotting Product To Public & Private Health & Safety Institutions and to Emergency & First-Aid Stations WALLINGFORD, Conn., June 7, 2006- Z- Medica Corporation (Z-Medica), a medical products company focused on innovative hemostatic nanotechnologies, today announced that it has entered into an exclusive manufacturer/distributor agreement with Loorita Met Medical (Loorita Met) of Guadalajara City for Mexican distribution of its QuikClot® brand hemostatic agent. Loorita Met was established by
Norwalk, Connecticut entrepreneur Wayne LeBlanc, in partnership with a team of business leaders from Guadalajara Jalisco. Z-Medica COO Jeffrey Horn, who handles global marketing for the company, is serving as product information and training liaison between Z-Medica and Loorita Met and is supporting Loorita Met’s marketing efforts in Mexico.

    QuikClot® was recently approved for use, sale and distribution by the Health secretary and affiliated departments of the Mexican Federal Government. Z-Medica has worked closely with the Loorita Met staff, as well as Mexican doctors and emergency responders, during initial product training. Through market surveys and sales analyses, Loorita Met identified a significant demand for QuikClot® among public and private health institutions, institutions providing emergency care, and first aid stations such as the Green Cross. It will also meet a demand for such a product among public and private security organizations.

    In the United States, QuikClot® serves as an adjunct life-saving hemostatic device in a broad range of applications. QuikClot® is actively deployed by the United States military as well as by law enforcement officers, security personnel and first responders. Many countries outside the U.S. are approving its use and seeing fast early adoption for its life-saving benefits. In Mexico, Loorita Met executives expect QuikClot® to make a major contribution to the ability of health institutions and emergency services groups to save the lives of individuals suffering severe blood loss.

    In addition to the immediate impact QuikClot® will make in Mexican emergency care, Z-Medica CEO Raymond J. Huey foresees that new Z-Medica products currently in research and development will provide further benefits. “We are working on products that will have applications in dentistry and in the surgical setting, helping improve the ability of physicians to manage bleeding during surgery and post-surgically.” Loorita Met will distribute the original QuikClot® product, a granular mineral material poured directly into a wound, as well as QuikClot ACS™ (Advanced Clotting Sponge), a product version that formulates QuikClot® into beads that are contained in a porous sac of special surgical fabric. The two product versions are used to handle different traumatic bleeding situations.

    QuikClot® is in use by all branches of the U.S. military in Afghanistan and Iraq where it is confirmed to have saved more than 150 lives. QuikClot® has been used throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia with consistently excellent results. In the United States it is in use with various law enforcement agencies around the country.

    About Z-Medica
    Founded in April 2002, Z-Medica Corporation is a medical products company focused on innovative blood clotting technologies -- hemostatic solutions that save lives. QuikClot was developed in cooperation with the Office of Naval Research (ONR), the U.S. Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory, the U.S. Marine Corps Systems Command and university hospitals. It represents the first and most effective solution to severe blood loss outside the operating room setting. Z- Medica serves several global vertical markets, including military, first responder, homeland and private security. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Grants & Training recently added ‘hemostatic agent’ to its 2006 Authorized Equipment List (AEL), qualifying QuikClot® for purchase using grant dollars, subject to each State’s administrative agency’s approval. The company is fully engaged in accelerating development and distribution of QuikClot® hemostatic agent, QuikClot ACS™ and
related products.

Popular science : Tech innovations 2002

    Many victims survive an accident but they bleed until dying before the medical aid arrives. That was what the creation of QuikClot® inspired, the first product that stops the massive bled one outside a surgical unit.

    In May it was approved by the FDA and it consists of a mineral sponge that quickly absorbs all the sanguineous components in an opened wound, except the coagulation factors. The troops who went already to Afghanistan used it and his
inventor, Frank Hurset, glides to send a homemade version for beginnings of the following year.

Publication:
December 2002

State police with medicines will count to stop hemorrhage

 

For a month the security elements count on the material. THE INFORMER • The hemostatic one granulated suspends the hemorrhages and grants to the wounded more opportunity of being taken care of. The material at the moment is used by the Armed Forces of the United States. It reads the complete note of the INFORMER GUADALAJARA, JALISCO. - The Secretariat of Public Security of the State of Jalisco occurred to the task of looking for alternatives to offer an extra in the search of improvements in the quality of life of those who set out their physical integrity daily in the fulfillment of his to have. The result was a hemostatic one granulated that as to his it indicates it name, it suspends the hemorrhages and it grants to the wounded more opportunity of being taken care of by the medical areas specialized and to avoid that it dies bled. In the case of Mexico, the Secretariat of Public Security of Jalisco is the first corporation in the country in including a stock market with this dust in the operative units; giving preference to the games of the Rural Police, whose dynamics of work implies the one that the elements cross long distances of breaches and moved away ways of towns that count on medical units of health or centers of first aid. With this dust gauze species that now owns the state police, when applying it on the open wound, the increase in the concentration is accelerated of platelets and coagulating factors

Publication July 3 2008