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REVOLUTIONARY - ChitoGauze 
In a recent trauma case involving an open pelvic fracture our team used hemostatic ChitoGauze with great success when bleeding could not be controlled any other way.
Dr. Y. Klein, Trauma Surgeon, Kaplan Hospital – Rehovot, Israel
 
We applied it to an infant who was in DIC and multi-organ failure from sepsis of unknown origin… After two hours the amount of bleeding from the wound seemed to diminish. I changed the dressing and noted "new" clot which was a significant difference; I applied the ChitoFlex to each of the wounds for a better fit; seemed to help diminish the flow of blood.
Martin R. Eichelberger, M.D. Pediatric Surgeon, Children’s National Medical Center - Washington, DC
 
Recently there was a 10 days old baby suffering from severe coagulopathy. The child had been bleeding from the navel for 2 days. Nothing helped. I was called in to treat the little baby. 

We used a 1 x 3 inch ChitoFlex dressing; put it on the bleeding navel for 5 minutes and the bleeding stopped. There has been no re-bleed from the navel.
Yoram Klein, MD Dr. Klein, Head of Trauma - Kaplan Hospital, Israel. 

More than six million bleeding wounds are treated annually by trauma and emergency rooms in the U.S., and Dr. Sudip Bose, an emergency physician and Iraq war veteran is witness to many of them.
“I used the HemCon Bandage extensively in Iraq and it helped save countless lives; it was especially effective with amputations and penetrating wounds,” said Dr. Bose.

“Wounds in the emergency room are different than those on the battlefield, but the bandage functions the same way. It stops bleeding and saves lives. There are times when I would not have been able to stop the bleeding without it. This allows me to spend the vital time performing other measures to stabilize the patient.”

Dr. Bose also states that the HemCon Bandage has an added bonus: “As doctors, our mantra is to ‘Do no harm,’ and the HemCon Bandage truly does no harm. It’s extremely effective and there are no negative effects from its use.”

“It’s really easy to use—soldiers with no medical experience were able to use it effectively.
Dr. Sudip Bose, Attending Emergency Physician - Advocate Christ Medical Center, IL
 
“Well, all I can say is thank goodness I had some HemCon Bandages available this morning.  My dad, who’s on Plavix took a fall at the bedside and got a head laceration.  It was bleeding (profusely), I grabbed a bandage out of my bag put it over the laceration, held pressure and stopped the bleeding.  When EMS arrived they actually used saline to irrigate and remove bandage and inspect the cut.  I was so impressed!”
Suzanne Thornburg, R.N. Clinician 

 

 

Thank you so much for your product. My son was bleeding from an artery for 3 days following a complex cardiac surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital. Fortunately they were trialing your bandage here by request of one of the nurses and my son was the recipient of one of the two remaining patches. It has been 7 hours with no bleeding. I am so amazed and thankful that I had to write in with my gratitude for your commitment to saving lives.


Darla Haskell, Fort Lauderdale, FL
 

My mother recently had three coronary stents put in to relieve nearly complete blockage of her left hand side coronary arteries.  When the catheter was removed from the artery in her leg, there was sudden uncontrolled bleeding that resisted the surgeon’s efforts to stem.  They applied considerable physical force and a HemCon bandage and the combination was successful in allowing the opening to her artery to close over so she could go on to recovery.

We live in NY but went to the Cleveland Clinic because of its reputation as the best heart center in the US.  Looking back, I am so thankful we had access to that kind of wonderful care- which included your product!

Leslie Mather, New York

 

In the emergency department I have used The HemCon Bandage when conventional means have failed.  A few weeks ago I had a patient with a large lingual tumor and trismus (about 1cm).  The tumor was bleeding quite briskly and we could not get to it.  I put a HemCon 1x3 inch bandage into the patient’s mouth over the bleeding tumor.  I put some slight pressure on it and got control of the bleeding.  It has also been very helpful in patients who are anticoagulated.

 Dr. Richard Schwartz, Medical College of Georgia

 
"I was on-call for emergencies when I was asked to see this 80 year old man, who earlier in the day had undergone Moh's surgery for skin cancer on his chin by a local dermatologist," relates Dr. Ress. "The patient suffered from a rare coagulopathy, and would not create well formed clot. Standard hemostatic agents did not work for more than 24 hours before the clot would lyse and bleeding resumed."  Over a 2 week period, he used GelFoam®, Thrombin®, cautery, suture ligation, Surgicel®, Avitene®. The hematologists transfused platelets and Amicar® without success. "Despite the wound area being small, he just continued to just drip, drip, drip."
 
"I remembered seeing a CNN report on a new hemostatic dressing used by the military in Iraq," says Dr. Ress, "but I couldn't remember the name." After speaking with pharmacist Warren Friedman in Cleveland, Dr. Ress contacted HemCon's home office in Oregon directly on a late Friday afternoon. "Everyone had already gone home except the CEO, who took my call. We discussed the patient's condition. Serendipitously it turned out that one of the national sales reps lived 5 miles from the hospital.
I met him there, practically ran to the patient's bedside, and applied the HemCon® bandage. The bleeding stopped immediately. It was like a scene from out of a movie."
 
"Just using this little piece of HemCon® Bandage (a 2in x 2in bandage) was a life-saving maneuver," says Ress.

 Andrew Ress, M.D. – Ress Institute Plastic Surgery - Boca Raton, FL

 
"We had an interesting application of HemCon dental pledgets the other night. 8 day old with neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (transient low platelet clotting disorder) and prolonged bleeding from his circumcision site. The family was offered either silver nitrate (chemical cautery) or HemCon. They selected HemCon which controlled the bleeding after 3 minutes of pressure and 1 reapplication."

Dr. John Devlin, LCDR U.S. Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, EMD
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