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FYI 

 Granules that stop bleeding popular with U.S. troops  (Note: See
Testimonial and contact information for the manufacturer below the
article.) November 20, 2004 A QuikClot "battle pack" costs $39.95.
(HamptonRoads.com/Pilot Online) By Dale Eisman, The Virginian-Pilot
icemandc at msn.com<mailto:icemandc at msn.com> or 703-913-9872 P.O. Box 449 Norfolk, VA 23501-0449 Fax:
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Editor: letters at pilotonline.com<mailto:letters at pilotonline.com> (150-word limit) Washington, D.C. - A
small green packet, filled with white granules that resemble kitty
litter, has quietly become a must-carry item for U.S. soldiers and
Marines in or headed to Iraq. 
While the Marine Corps is providing it free to every Marine headed into
battle - about 109,000 packets have been distributed to Marines so far -
thousands of troops also are opening their wallets to buy personal
supplies of the substance, QuikClot, and tucking the packets into their
rucksacks. 

Army medics in Iraq are applying QuikClot to wounds, said Colonel John
Holcomb, commander of the Army's Institute of Surgical Research, but the
Army has left decisions about distribution to individual soldiers up to
commanders in the field. 

Doctors say the granules, a refined form of a volcanic mineral called
zeolite, have saved dozens -- and perhaps hundreds -- of lives since the
war began nineteen months ago. 

Sprinkled into a wound, QuikClot stanches even the most profuse bleeding
in seconds, according to doctors, medical corpsmen and individual users. 

The product works by absorbing the blood's plasma, leaving the platelets
that naturally form blood clots. 

"This is not magic, or a kind of fairy dust," said Navy Captain Sandra
Reed, the sea service's director of expeditionary medicine. 

Potential users are cautioned that QuikClot can cause minor burns and
should be applied only after a pressure dressing or tourniquet has failed
to stop the flow of blood, she said. 

"It's a last resort," agreed Marine Captain Gerard R. Cox, director for
medical programs at Headquarters Marine Corps in Washington. 

But Reed and Cox acknowledged that the granules have proven astonishingly
effective in stopping bleeding. A soldier or Marine wounded by gunfire
generally can be treated with a pressure dressing, Reed said, but the
homemade explosive devices favored by Iraqi insurgents create shrapnel
that shreds flesh and makes bleeding harder to stop. 

His customers don't flinch at the $39.95 price tag for a QuikClot "battle
pack," said Paul Voorhees, co-owner of Ranger Joe's, a military supply
outlet located a few miles from Fort Benning, Georgia. Voorhees said
every week he sells about 700 of the packs, which include 3.5 ounces of
QuikClot plus gauze and a pressure dressing. 

"When we put it in, I really didn't anticipate the sales being as good,
but I didn't think about how many people would want it," Voorhees said. 

Most of his customers are soldiers, but he's also doing a brisk business
in online orders from police officers, firefighters, paramedics, even
hunters who have heard about QuikClot's use in Iraq, he said. 

"We get orders from wives, mothers, e-mails from people who say they're
putting together a bake sale to raise money for QuikClot" for service
members in their families or from their neighborhoods, said Jessica
Perkins, product manager for QuikClot's manufacturer, Z-Medica LLC of
Newington, Connecticut. http://www.z-medica.com/<http://www.z-medica.com/> 

Z-Medica markets QuikClot directly to service members and emergency first
responders through its Web site and is building a national network of
distributors. The product is not available in pharmacies, but Perkins
said Z-Medica hopes eventually to sell it in retail stores alongside
other first aid supplies. Some distributors, such as Ranger Joe's,
already sell it online. 

Z-Medica's founder, Francis X. Hursey, is said to have stumbled into
zeolite's lifesaving potential more than a decade ago when he cut himself
while shaving. http://www.z-medica.com/order.html<http://www.z-medica.com/order.html> 

A scientist who had used zeolite in his work developing gas-separation
and purification equipment for medical uses, Hursey was familiar with the
mineral's absorptive properties; he dabbed a few grains on the nick,
which immediately stopped bleeding. 

The Food and Drug Administration cleared QuikClot for public sale in
2002, and after tests by the Office of Naval Research, the Navy
Department decided to include it in the individual first aid kids
provided to every Marine and Navy SEAL going ashore in Iraq, Reed said. 

Copyright 2004,
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Z-Medica Headquarters 
35 Budney Road 
Budney Industrial Park 
Newington, CT 06111 USA 
860-667-2201 (ext. 261 to locate distributors - Jeffrey Horn) 
Fax: 860-667-6040 
jhorn at z-medica.com<mailto:jhorn at z-medica.com> 


Testimonial
Pennsylvania State Police helps save a patient with severe femoral artery
bleeding using QuikClot 
I was at a local hospital when paramedics brought in a patient with
severe femoral artery bleeding. 

They were applying direct pressure to the wound with little effect and
they told the attending physician that they estimated she had already
lost over three liters of blood. 

The doctor had already requested a surgical tray and was preparing to
perform surgery in the emergency room to stop the bleeding, but he was
not sure if he could stop the bleeding in time, as the patient had
already lost so much blood. 

I told the doctor that I had some Quikclot in my patrol car and he asked
me to get it. 

He had a nurse apply pressure to the artery above the wound to stop the
bleeding while he cleaned the clots from the wound. 

He then told me to apply the Quikclot to the wound. 

He applied direct pressure to the wound and told the nurse to release the
pressure to the artery. 

He then slowly released the pressure to the wound and announced that the
bleeding had stopped. 

He turned to me and said that I saved the patient's life. 

He later asked me to get him information on Quikclot and when I told him
I will be ordering more of it he asked me to order some for him. 

Cpl. 

Pennsylvania State Police 

http://www.z-medica.com/Testimonial/Testimonials.html<http://www.z-medicacom/Testimonial/Testimonials.html> 


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