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Originally Posted by 29G31
If by civilian you mean EMS/FR we were using it on our Tacmed team. I just removed it after hearing the presentation given at SOMA. We never had an opportunity to test it on an actual patient. I am looking at replacing all of our stock with Combat Gauze. I like this option because it looks like regular dressing when in the wound.... could get away with using on regular trauma calls. When I was at SOMA the manufacturer of the OLAES dressing was even discussing making the first few yards of their packing in their bandage GC. This would be a great product.. everything all in one package.
The system I work in only allows hemostatics and tourniquets to be used by SWAT medics. This decision was made by the trauma surgeons board and the agency medical directors all follow suite. I can understand their issue with hemostatics that are granular based but products like QC ACS+ and CG are easy to remove from the wound. I also understand that we have relatively short transport times but the use of a military type tourniquet seems to make perfect sense.
We are at a distinct disadvantage on this side by not having the benefit of live tissue training/testing when it comes to hemostatics so we try to get information from sources like this forum and SOMA. We have several local department members that were corpsmen who have used some of these products and given us good feedback. I always appreciate any information I get from you guys in the field.
Steve
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Steve,
If your trauma docs are wondering about human use in and out of the operating room for the quik-clot...tell them to email me. I have used it 7 times in the body in the operating room and 12-15x in the resuscitation bay. Would be happy to educate them.
ss
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