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Used for years by U.S. military to control bleeding, HemCon(R) Bandages now available to U.S. health-care professionals as a new weapon to save lives, fight uncontrolled hemorrhage
DUBLIN, Ohio, July 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cardinal Health, a global provider of products and services that improve the safety and productivity of health care, today announced an exclusive, four-year distribution agreement with HemCon Medical Technologies, Inc. to provide its new line of hemorrhage control bandages to hospitals, surgery centers and physician offices in the United States.
HemCon(R) Bandages, used by the U.S. military since 2003, have demonstrated a 97% effective rate in controlling bleeding on the battlefield (1). HemCon recently reengineered its bandages to meet the specific needs of civilian trauma and emergency medicine. The new bandages, which control severe arterial bleeding, are thinner, more flexible and sized differently than the original HemCon military bandage. The technology used in the bandages is particularly useful in hospital settings, because it allows providers to standardize one hemorrhage...
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