Adding QuikClot Sport Silver to Your First Aid Kit CAN Quickly Save a Life in an Emergency

 

Do you have a first aid kit available in your home and car? If so, are you familiar with its contents and how to use them in case of an emergency? Does it contain a hemostatic dressing, such as QuikClot Sport Silver? In most cases, we react to a situation and then wish that we had been better prepared. As a safety precaution, you should have one for your home, car and even one for travel. It is also advisable is obtain a free "how to" book on first aid that is provided by your local Red Cross office.

 

Traumatic Blood Loss

One of the most frightening injuries is traumatic blood loss from superficial wounds, minor cuts, and abrasions that wont stop bleeding. All too often, using the first aid kit's gauze is not enough to stop the bleeding. It is a sad fact that such a wound can result in the loss of life if medical attention is not immediately available.

 

quikclot newsRecently, a product was made commercially available that will instantly stop bleeding. The original version is used by the military, emergency medical systems and law enforcement departments.
 

The product is a hemostatic agent capable of controlling bleeding without any significant exothermic reaction (heat release). It is an affordable FDA approved product capable of promoting clotting even in the presence of severe arterial and venous bleeding without the risk of causing any burning discomfort to the patient.

 

Introducing QuikClot® Sport™ Advanced Clotting Sponge

Rapidly and Safely Prevents Severe Blood Loss at the Scene of an Injury

Quick Clot Sport is a new breakthrough product that prevents traumatic blood loss from superficial wounds, minor cuts, and abrasions. It saves lives by rapidly stopping severe bleeding.first aid kit - quikclot Sport It is a must for your first aid kit.

 

It incorporates the latest lifesaving blood clotting technologies that provides a level of safety to anyone who might be at risk from bleeding injuries - including athletes and children. Quik Clot Sport is designed to fit easily into backpacks, first aid kits and your car’s glove compartment.

 

QuikClot Sport helps create a stable, powerful clot, which stays firmly in place until it is removed in the hospital or operating room setting.

 

How does it work?

When QuikClot® comes into contact with blood in and around a wound it rapidly absorbs the smaller water molecules from the blood. The larger platelet and clotting factor molecules remain in the wound in a highly concentrated form. This promotes extremely rapid natural clotting and prevents severe blood loss. Since the reaction is physical, and not biological or chemical, there is almost no chance for an allergic reaction to occur.

 

How is it packaged?

Each sterile individually vacuum-packed surgical mesh bag is packed with zeolite beads that stop bleeding almost instantly. Designed to fit easily into backpacks and first aid kits, QuikClot Sport™ and QuikClot Sport Silver™ come in 25-gram and 50-gram ‘clotting sponges’ that rapidly and safely stop bleeding at the scene of an injury.

 

QuikClot® Sport™ Silver Antibacterial Clotting Sponge

first aid kit - quikclot Sport SilverWith QuikClot® Sport™ Silver there is the added antibacterial advantage of ionic silver. Silver acts to prevent the growth of bacteria and fungi which can be especially important if medical care is not immediately available. It combines near-instantaneous clotting action with silver-based infection protection. It is effective against S. aureus, E. coli, P. aeruginosa, and C. albicans.

 

Which one should I use?

•   Use QuikClot® Sport™ when medical attention IS immediately available

•    Use QuikClot® Sport™ Silver when medical attention is NOT immediately available to help prevent potential infection

 

Two Sizes are Available

Each comes in either a 25 or 50 gram size:

•         QuikClot Sport or QuikClot Sport Silver 25: 0.88 oz, 3.5" x 3.5" mesh bag

•         QuikClot Sport QuikClot Sport Silver 50: 1.75 oz, 5" x 5" mesh bag

 

Add it to Your First Aid Kit

Adding QuikClot® Sport™ or QuikClot® Sport™ Silver to your first aid kit could be one of the most important things you have ever done. Whether you are alone or with a group – there is nothing like it to stop bleeding in an emergency. You can even keep one handy in your car’s glove compartment.

 

Also Available

Quickclot for Nosebleeds

 

Quickclot Travel

 

Additional Information

Shelf-Life and Storage Requirements

An unopened pack of QuikClot® has a shelf life of three years. The only storage direction is not to leave a pack of QuikClot® in direct sunlight for extended periods of time. QuikClot® can withstand high temperatures, as well as can be stored in below freezing temperatures.

 

FDA’s 510K Information

Information from the FDA’s 510K (k013390) document approving the QuikClot Sport products

“These new devices consist of mesh bags containing zeolite beads. The devices are vacuum-packed in multi-layer pouches to ensure sterility and efficacy.

 

Attribute | QC Sport | QC Sport Silver

Antimicrobial N o Silver causes >4~log reduction of S. aureus, E. coli, P. aeruginosa, and C. albicans within 60 minutes of exposure

Net Weight of 0.88oz & 1.75oz sizes available O.88oz & 1.75oz sizes available

Zeolite Beads Mesh Bag 3.5"x3.5" (0.88oz) & 5"x5" (1.7 5oz) 3.5"x3.5" (0.88oz) & 5"x5" (1.75oz)

 

Dimensions

Primary individually packaged in a multi-packaging layer pouch, vacuum-packed layer pouch, vacuum-packed

Sterilization gamma sterilization - 25-5OkGy gamma sterilization - 25-5OkGy

(SAL = 10-6) (SAL = 10-6)”

 

The FDA decision can be viewed at the website below by entering in the 510(k) number (k013390):

 

http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfPMN/pmn.cfm

  
 

 

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