April 9, 2014 – Bio-Stat LLC, the exclusive US distributor of CELOX hemostatic dressings manufactured by MedTrade Products Ltd., a UK based medical device company, today announced that the US De- partment of Defense’s Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care (CoTCCC) has added CELOX Gauze to its guidelines for control of hemorrhage as approved hemostatic agents for military-wide use.
Why CELOX works so well – Why the CoTCCC approved CELOX
CELOX Gauze contains a novel technology that allows it to work on the most severe bleeding where current treatments are not effective. It looks like a simple gauze bandage but has been coated with Celox Granules to give unique properties. In tests conducted by the US Navy, subjects treated with Celox had the highest rate of survival versus those treated with competing products or plain gauze.
Best Results over a wide range of conditions
Combat tested and in use by military forces the world over due to its proven ability to treat a wound with less total blood loss, Celox is the choice for any first response, tactical or emergency wound care. In many of the worst injuries, the blood lost causes the body’s natural clotting abilities to fail, but Celox acts independently of the body’s mechanism and continues to work in this situation, where other treatments that work by accelerating the body’s own clotting process can fail. Celox is also effective under conditions where the patient is using blood thinners or where hypothermia has occurred.
CELOX Products Approved for all US Military Use and Procurement as Emergency Hemostat
Already in use by US Special Forces due to it’s superior results, the approval of the CoTCCC makes CELOX Gauze a standard ordering and procurement hemostatic dressing for all branches of the US military. The CoTCCC decision now makes CELOX available to every member of the DOD’s forces, and CELOX can be added to and reordered for all wound care and medical kits in US military use.
The US military review follows a recent trend in which increasing numbers of civilian emergency services are reviewing their equipment and taking on new treatments. In a large part this is a response to tragedies such as the Boston Marathon bombing as well as new guidelines for responses to indiscriminate shootings. For example, in the Massachusetts area around Boston the regional council for Homeland Security has prescribed new hemorrhage control kits that include the Celox bandages for their responders.
CELOX is exclusively available in the US from BioStat LLC
BioStat LLC, based in Orlando, FL and Medtrade Products Ltd, a UK-based medical devices compa- ny, have an arrangement for all U.S. sales and distribution responsibilities to be handled by BioStat, LLC for the CELOX portfolio of hemostatic agents.
Under terms of the agreement, BioStat has importation, marketing, sales, and distribution oversight responsibility for the entire CELOX portfolio for all military, law enforcement and civilian pre-hospital sales.
Information is available on the internet at http://www.biostatllc.com/, or call 1-844-BIO-STAT for additional details on the CoTCCC approval and how to order CELOX products for use by your unit or agency.
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Hopefully, now that “Quickclot” has a competitor in the market, prices will come down to the point that regular “Joe Schmo’s” can purchase more than 1 or 2 packs for their FAK.
Considering you can get Celox or QC for between $35 and $45, depending on where you shop, I really don’t see what the issue is.
If a regular Schmo can’t be arsed to pay $140 to 180, for four or five items every four or five years (or longer, depending on package integrity) that might save his life, or the life of a loved one, he probably can’t be arsed to learn to use those items, keep those skills up, or regularly carry those items. So really, what’s the point?
Relative to what the products do, if you need them, the price is minimal. Running a couple boxes of good carry ammo through your CCW piece for validation of performance every so often will cost about the same. Magazines for some weapons cost about the same as a pack of QC and most of us have multiple mags. A good sling costs about the same (if not more) as a pack, and a good holster costs twice as much, and how many variations of each do we all buy trying to find “the one”?
Pass on Starbucks for a week, and buy a pack of hemostatic. Do this four a month, and viola, four packs. Or spread it out throughout a year.
The price isn’t the problem with med gear. Operator headspace is the problem.
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