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January 25, 2008
Z-Medica Provides Lifesaving QuikClot to 3rd Annual Connecticut S.W.A.T. Challenge – Adding To Realism oF Terror Exercise
Sponsorship Reflects Company’s Commitment to Helping First Responders Save Lives at The Scenes of Accidents and Crime Incidents Where There is Traumatic Bleeding WALLINGFORD, Conn., October 3, 2007- Imagine…Terrorists have highjacked a school bus full of children and have wounded an individual, who is bleeding profusely. A S.W.A.T. team arrives at the scene and storms the bus. They pull a 100 gm packet of QuikClot 1st Response™ from a TraumaPak from Z-Medica Corporation and, using the blood clotting product and other items in the kit, stop the bleeding before placing the 165-pound victim on a stretcher and 100-yard run to a safe area.
This action was one of the scenarios played out as part of the 3rd Annual Connecticut S.W.A.T. Challenge, a competition among emergency response teams from around the state – 26 this year. Z-Medica Corporation, a medical products company focused on innovative hemostatic nano-technologies, was an event sponsor, donating its blood clotting products, QuikClot 1st Response™ and QuikClot ACS+™, for use in the competition and as part of the prize packages for the winners. The company also sent its Director of Training Robert Huebner to the event to train the teams in the use of QuikClot® products. Proper usage of the products was one of a number of points on which the teams were judged.
The Connecticut S.W.A.T. Challenge is intended to give emergency response teams the opportunity to train with other teams in order to learn from one another and to better hone their skills. Z-Medica, whose blood clotting products are in use with first responders around the nation and in 36 countries, saw an opportunity to support its home state first responders by participating in the event. This is the second year it has been a sponsor.
“QuikClot® gives first responders the capability to stop severe bleeding right at the scene of an incident, a recent advance saving lives that would have been lost a few years ago,” said Z-Medica CEO Raymond J. Huey.
“Not only did providing QuikClot® products to the S.W.A.T. Challenge increase the sense of reality, but it introduced many of the team members to a new lifesaving skill, he added.”
QuikClot 1st Response™ and QuikClot ACS+™ are two of the new generation of blood clotting products from Z-Medica. In these products, QuikClot®, a proprietary mineral substance, is formulated into beads enclosed in a porous surgical fabric.
When introduced into a wound, this sponge takes the shape of the injury, conforms to the wound and rapidly stops even the most severe venous and arterial bleeding. The sponge stays in place and is easily removed once the patient is in a medical setting. The possibility of generating excessive heat with improper use has been removed with these products.
First developed for the military, QuikClot® is proven to have saved scores of lives on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan. It is in use by first responders, safety and security organizations across the United States, and is the most widely used hemostatic first aid product available with more than one million units deployed worldwide.
The Central Region Emergency Response Team won the event sponsored by Z-Medica and received 12 Z-Medica TraumaPaks as their prize. In October, representatives will travel to Z-Medica to take part in the company’s train-the-trainer program to help them maximize the effectiveness of the TraumaPaks, which include QuikClot 1st Response™.
About Z-Medica
Founded in 2002, Z-Medica Corporation is a medical products company focused on innovative blood clotting nano-technologies -- hemostatic solutions that save lives. QuikClot® was developed in cooperation with the Office of Naval Research (ONR), the U.S. Marine Corps
Warfighting Laboratory, the U.S. Marine Corps Systems Command and university hospitals.
It represents the first and most effective solution to severe blood loss outside the operating room setting. Z-Medica serves several global vertical markets, including military, first responder, homeland and private security, and now consumer.
In addition to QuikClot 1st Response™, Z-Medica manufactures and markets the original QuikClot® hemostatic agent, as well as QuikClot ACS+™, another of its newer generation products, and its first products for consumers, QuikClot Sport™ and QuikClot Sport Silver™.
Z-Medica headquarters is located at 4 Fairfield Blvd., Wallingford, Connecticut 06492. For more information, please call (203) 294.0000 or visit www.z-medica.com.
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