Hemostatic Dressing
The hemcon dressing is a freeze dried chitosan dressing designed to optimize the mucoadhesive surface density and structural integrity of chitosan at the site of the injury essentially the.
Hemostatic dressing. Hemostatic gauze dressings using the active ingredient chitosan include celox chito sam and hemcon. Vacuum pack sterile compact and light packaged in 3 in. Nustat hemostatic hemostatic dressings patented dual fiber technology controls bleeding through absorption at the injury site which results in a physical aggregation of blood cells and clotting factors.
Hemostatic dressing such as quikclot is a wound dressing that contains an agent that promotes blood clotting. 7 37 38 these agents were found to work effectively although some casualties were reported to suffer cutaneous burns with quikclot use. 39 40 41 these hemostatic agents were also found to perform well when used in civilian trauma settings.
Cotccc the committee on tactical combat casualty care has long recommended quikclot combat gauze as the hemostatic agent of choice for all branches of the us military.