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Quikclot
Inv #: 5020-0008
Regular $15.00
Sale: $0.00
Summary
A must for any first aid or emergency kit—Quikclot® Sport Silver stops moderate to severe bleeding until further medical help is available. With QuikClot Sport Silver, there is an added antibacterial advantage of ionic silver. Silver acts to prevent the growth of bacteria and fungi which can be especially important is medical care s not immediately available.
Detail Description
A must for any first aid or emergency kit-Quikclot® Sport stops moderate to severe bleeding until further medical help is available. * Quikclot® is a chemically inert material in a mesh bag that speeds coagulation of blood, resulting in a stable clot that stops bleeding. Stops bleeding quicker than conventional methods and is safe to leave on wounds until more advanced medical help arrives.
With QuikClot Sport Silver, there is an added antibacterial advantage of ionic silver. Silver acts to prevent the growth of bacteria and fungi which can be especially important is medical care s not immediately available.
Sizing
25 g/pack
Practical Application
Simply remove from the package, apply to the wound using pressure and stop the bleeding fast. Light weight and compact packaging for easy fit inside a suitcase or existing first aid kits. The perfect size for scalp lacerations or bleeding where a bandage is not enough. Simple and safe!
The Breakthrough Life-Saving Product Quikclot® lot® brand hemostatic agent saves lives by rapidly stopping severe bleeding. It is composed of an inert mineral substance that meets a variety of medical needs and applications, and changing the way we look at traumatic bleeding, by giving first responders and others an additional tool that can save a life.
For the first time in history, we've put the ability to quickly stop severe, life threatening bleeding into the hands of anyone who can tear open a package and follow a few simple directions. When blood loss is the danger, QuikClot® is the answer.
The original QuikClot® brand products derive their primary hemostatic properties from zeolite, a naturally occurring mineral material with fascinating properties that have applications in many areas. One of the amazing properties of zeolite is the tremendous surface area found in a small volume of material. One teaspoon of zeolite provides a surface equal to that of a football field.
stops bleeding, blood coagulation, wound care, antibacterial blood clotter
Technical Information
Nature provides us with wonderfully redundant systems when it deems a system important to our survival. Certainly, keeping our blood inside our body where it belongs is one of those things important to our survival. Our bodies have multiple complex systems to help make sure this happens. The two main systems are platelet activation and the coagulation cascade. QuikClot® brand zeolite based products work in both these systems. In collaboration with Professor Galen Stucky at the University of California at Santa Barbara, we have shown that the above agents activate platelets. Activated platelets help stop bleeding because they form a plug. This occurs in conjunction with the body's own mechanisms of platelet activation, which occur whenever there is an injury to a blood vessel.
QuikClot® products also work in the coagulation cascade. The specific engineered zeolite used contains a cation (Ca++) that is a cofactor in many steps of the coagulation cascade. Also, there is evidence from Professor Stucky's group that QuikClot® facilitates a phenomenon widely known as the "glass effect". It has been known since the 1800's that blood clotted faster than otherwise when it came in contact with glass. Since then, it has been shown that this is due to the negative surface charge found on glass. Further research tells us that the negative surface potential activates a protein at the very beginning of the contact pathway, one of the two chains in the coagulation cascade. Ostomel and Baker1 have clearly demonstrated in thromboelastography (TEG) that the surface charge and isoelectric point of inorganic oxides such as zeolite promote rapid onset of clotting and strong clot formation as a result of protein activation in the coagulation cascade.
Furthermore, QuikClot® products adsorb water from the blood. Water is trapped in the zeolite and held there by the charge within the zeolite pores, zeolite framework and hydrogen bond formation. This locally concentrates the cellular and large protein components of the blood further catalyzing clot formation.
