January 2004

I just want to thank you again for your time. Here is the full story of last night’s episode in the emergency room.

I was at a local hospital when paramedics brought in a patient with severe femoral artery bleeding. They were applying direct pressure to the wound with little effect and they told the attending physician that they estimate she already lost over three liters of blood. The doctor had already requested a surgical tray and was preparing to perform surgery in the emergency room to stop the bleeding but he was not sure if he could stop the bleeding in time as the patient had already lost so much blood. I told the doctor that I had some Quikclot in my patrol car and he asked me to get it. He had a nurse apply pressure to the artery above the wound to stop the bleeding while he cleaned the clots from the wound. He then told me to apply the Quikclot to the wound. He applied direct pressure to the wound and told the nurse to release the pressure to the artery. He then slowly released the pressure to the wound and announced that the bleeding had stopped. He turned to me and said that I saved the patients life.
He later asked me to get him information on Quikclot and when I told him I will be ordering more of it he asked me to order some for him.