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QuikClot Testimonials
0703210
July 8, 2003
James Turner
Food Service Supervisor
Flat Rock Playhouse
Hendersonville, NC
‘If You Cut Me, Do I Not Bleed?’
Not With QuikClot Handy!
As the person in charge of preparing food for the cast, crew and staff of
the Flat Rock Playhouse, Jim Turner is slicing and dicing just about every
day. “I’m always in a hurry,” he says.
It was on one of those hurried days that he was slicing potatoes. He looked
down and saw that the potatoes were red. “I was using a really sharp
knife and cut off the tip of my thumb without noticing it,” he said.
It was bleeding profusely, and a co-worker cried to him not show it her or
she’d faint. “Every time my heart beat, more blood would spurt,” he said.
Fortunately, Jim had a sample of QuikClot. He tore open the package and stuck
his thumb in the granules. There was a brief sensation of heat but
no real discomfort. The bleeding stopped in less than a minute. The
QuikClot appeared to form a cap over the injury, Jim said.
“I’m sure that if I hadn’t had QuikClot, I would have been in real trouble.”
Jim went to the emergency room of the nearby hospital. “The physician’s assistant
who treated me really marveled at it,” Jim said.
The assistant did not know how to remove QuikClot from the wound, so Jim
simply put his thumb under running water, which partially dislodged the clot.
A nurse and a physician’s assistant applied a pressure bandage to completely
stop the bleeding and make sure a permanent clot had formed. They then covered
the wound with artificial skin.
Although this was the most severe injury for which Jim has used QuikClot,
he has also used it many times for minor cuts. “I just put a little on with
my fingers and the bleeding stops. I can go back to work and by the time
I’m ready to go home, the QuikClot is gone.”
Cast members have discovered a novel use for QuikClot, Jim reports. When
they get a fever blister, they put a little on the tip of their finger and
then dab it on the blister. Any bleeding stops immediately and the blister
is gone the next day.
* Actual quote is “If you prick us, do we not bleed?” Merchant of Venice, Act 3, Scene 1, William Shakespeare
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