Blood Clot saves lives.

AuthorFoster, Sharon
PositionTech Talk - Brief Article

The Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory will test a new blood-clotting agent that could help save lives on the battlefield.

The lab will buy 2,500 units of a granulated, chemically inert material--similar in appearance to cat litter-known as "Quik Clot."

Quik Clot rapidly absorbs all the liquid in a bloody wound, which allows the blood's clotting factors to work immediately to stop the bleeding.

Because it is inert, the material itself does not clot or clump in the wound, and surgeons can remove it is easily.

Quik Clot is packaged in 3.5-ounce...

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