Z-Medica®, LLC, a leading developer and marketer of hemostatic devices, announces today that the sterility expiration date on its QuikClot Combat Gauze® products including QuikClot Combat Gauze, QuikClot Combat Gauze XL, QuikClot Combat Gauze TraumaPad, and QuikClot Combat Gauze LE is now five years.To get more news about Hemostatic Gauze, you can visit rusuntacmed.com official website.

"This is a significant development for our QuikClot Combat Gauze family of products," said Z-Medica President and CEO, Stephen J. Fanning. "Our number one mission is saving lives and stopping bleeding of those who are seriously injured. A longer shelf life not only provides our customers with better cost efficiencies and longer storage ability, but also provides an increased assurance of supply with no negative impact to quality or efficacy."

All QuikClot Combat Gauze products will reflect the extended expiration date effective immediately. Customers should adhere to the expiration date on the labeling for existing supply of products. QuikClot Combat Gauze packaged and labeled with a three-year expiration date are not covered by the recent five-year testing.That's the premise behind Z-Medica's QuikClot Combat Gauze, an innovative surgical gauze shown to be 100 percent effective in stopping traumatic bleeding by the second application in a model of simulated hemorrhagic shock.

A kaolin-based hemostatic agent is highly effective even in subjects who experience severe physiologic conditions for more than six hours," said Scott Garrett, Z-Medica's vice president of military and tactical programs in a press release.

The secret is impregnating the gauze with this kaolin, a mineral extracted from soil, said Giacomo Basadonna, M.D., chief medical officer for Z-Medica and part of the team who developed QuikClot in 2006.

Although the gauze was originally developed for surgical applications, it's been adopted by the military and EMS agencies nationwide, particularly in cath labs. Z-Medica wanted to use the medical worker's instincts to generate better results for traumatic bleeding.Dr. Basadonna said that to develop this gauze, they didn't want to use drugs or any substances that could cause allergic reactions. They wanted something safe, natural and green.

The mineral kaolin was the answer, and interest in using it to jumpstart clotting goes back to the 1920s, Dr. Basadonna said. Old papers show an interaction between the compound and the blood protein used first in the clotting process.

QuikClot is simple and easy to use, Dr. Basadonna said, because it looks like a roll of gauze -- and everybody knows how to use a roll of gauze.