Z-Medica to Provide New York City Police Department with QuikClot Belt Trauma Kits

Wallingford, CT, December 28, 2016-- Z-Medica, LLC, a leading developer and marketer of hemostatic devices, announces today that they have signed a three-year agreement to equip the New York City Police Department with life-saving QuikClot Belt Trauma Kits (BTK). The BTK is designed to fit on an officer’s duty belt and contains Z-Medica’s QuikClot Combat Gauze, a tourniquet, compression bandage and gloves which can be used by a police officer to administer emergency first aid to control bleeding until medical attention can be sought. According to the Hartford Consensus III, a set of guidelines established by the American College of Surgeons in collaboration with the medical community and federal government to create a protocol for national policy to enhance survivability from active shooter and intentional mass casualty events, uncontrolled hemorrhage is the single most preventable cause of death in these situations. Following a program initiated by the New York State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services (DHSES) several months ago, this initiative represents the largest standardization of advanced bleeding control kits ever deployed by a single city. The NYPD is the largest police force in the United States. “Our products have been battlefield tested and deployed with active military personnel in war zones for years,” stated Z-Medica’s President and CEO Stephen J. Fanning. “In the United States, QuikClot has become a standard product no...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Trauma Industry News Source Type: news