ActCel Hemostatic Gauze
Saturday, September 1, 2007
PTINR.com Staff
Effective and flexible – ActCel gauze controls bleeding quickly. A must have for today’s patients on the go.
The greatest risk for a patient taking Coumadin® (warfarin) is bleeding. Bleeding episodes for even minor cuts, abrasions and lacerations are frightening for patients. Nuisance bleeds are common and often difficult for patients to manage on their own with household first aid products. ActCel’s Hemostatic Gauze is a flexible product with a variety of uses to help control bleeding in patients taking Coumadin.
ActCel Hemostatic Gauze is a non-prescription product designed to, “stabilize new clots by accelerating the formation of fibrin cross-linkages and increase whole blood viscosity significantly in a wound, (while) promoting the aggregation of red blood cells.” Emergency Medicine & Critical Care Review, 2006
ActCel’s "advance bleeding control™" features practical benefits for all patients including those taking warfarin (Coumadin ®).
| Practical Benefits | |
| Quick clotting time | |
| No additives to delay healing | |
| Breaks down into saline and glucose | |
| Sterile and bacteriostatic | |
| All Natural | |
| Hypo-allergenic | |
| Cost effective | |
| No reported side effects | |
| www.actcel.com | |
ActCel is a gauze material with no chemical additives. When placed on a wound it expands 3-4 times its original size and transforms into a gel like material that, in a one to two weeks period of time dissolves.
No influence on blood test results
ActCel works from the outside in and has no influence on internal clotting factors. Therefore, ActCel will not alter the effects of Coumadin or influence blood test results.
There are no known side effects of ActCel. The gauze transforms into a gel and eventually (1-2 weeks) converts into glucose and saline.
Used in emergency departments, ActCel allows the patient to stabilize a bleeding episode (even at difficult wound sites) at home or during travel until a healthcare professional can fully evaluate the wound site.
“In emergency medicine, ActCel is an excellent tool to stop bleeding in hard to bandage areas, such as the head and extremities. It is a cleaner, more sanitary method, which reduces the possibility of infection. By controlling bleeding more quickly, it also allows the EMS professional to focus on other needs of the patient.” Merrill Bone, Emergency Medicine consultant
You can get the ActCel Hemostatic Gauze from QAS in a convenient, individually wrapped 20 pack.