Z-Medica develops new version of QuikClot Combat Gauze

Z-Medica Corporation, a medical device company developing innovative hemostatic agents, today announced that it has developed QuikClot Combat Gauze LE, a new version of its QuikClot Combat Gauze dressing specially designed and packaged for use by law enforcement and first responders.

“Throughout 2010 Z-Medica continued an aggressive push beyond the battlefield, to bring innovative hemostatic devices to the civilian healthcare and first response markets where they are being used to save lives every day”

Similar to the QuikClot Combat Gauze which is carried by every warfighter currently serving in all branches of the U.S. military and many U.S. allied militaries, QuikClot Combat Gauze LE is a soft, white, sterile, nonwoven 3" by 12 feet z-folded gauze impregnated with kaolin, an inert mineral with no known contraindications. Each QuikClot Combat Gauze LE unit is individually wrapped in an easy rip, sterile pouch. Rather than a standard roll, Z-Medica utilizes a z-fold design which allows for a quicker release from the package and more sanitary application process in a trauma situation. Indicated for temporary external use to control traumatic bleeding, QuikClot Gauze is flexible and pliable and contours to all wounds, and can achieve hemostasis in traumatic bleeding situations in as little as three minutes.

Z-Medica had previously made QuikClot Combat Gauze available to the law enforcement and first response markets, but this is the first QuikClot gauze product developed specifically for those markets. QuikClot Combat Gauze LEwill replace QuikClot Combat Gauze within the gauze version of the Belt Trauma Kit, a hemostatic kit comprised of QuikClot, a SWAT-Tourniquet™, a CPR shield and gloves, worn on the hip of law enforcement officers.

"Throughout 2010 Z-Medica continued an aggressive push beyond the battlefield, to bring innovative hemostatic devices to the civilian healthcare and first response markets where they are being used to save lives every day," said Brian Herrman, Chief Executive Officer, Z-Medica. "As we continue to gain traction within new markets we are aware of the need to design products that meet the needs of the responder or healthcare provider's specific use, QuikClot Combat Gauze LEis another example of our growing roster of specially designed, intuitive products."

Z-Medica's Combat Gauze LE Hemostatic Dressing will be on display for the first time at booth number 20415 at SHOT Show 2011, January 18-21 at The Sands Expo & Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.