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Originally Posted by mugwump
Thanks for this, very interesting. This stuff is cheap, $15 per packet retail as compared with $170 for the HemCon hemostatic bandage. Both use chitosan to control bleeding but the Celox looks even better for penetrating wounds. For $30 retail you can add a packet of this stuff and an Israeli bandage to a first aid kit.
When I Googled "chitosan" I found a zillion hits for its use as a dietary supplement for weight loss ("fat magnet"). It doesn't work, apparently, but it looks like the price of bulk chitosan has been driven down by the fad.
Any discussion about Hemopure, the blood substitute the Navy is backing? Now that PolyHeme has fallen out of bed it looks like the only game in town. I think if they are going to get Hemopure off the ground they are going to have to sponsor their own clinical studies.
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The HemCon is great for sealing clean lacerations, but in irregular wounds it periodically can (and does) fails catastrophically. The Celox can be dumped into the wound and packed with Kerlix gauze, working almost as well as the QuickClot, without cooking the meat.
Didn't see anything on the blood substitutes.
TR
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