First case was a 80 year old female with renovascular hypertension and need for dialysis. To make matter worse she was on Coumadin and was had an extremely high blood pressure. She needed her dialysis to reduce the pressure. She developed a spontaneous bleed in her dialysis shunt. In fact it was extremely high pressure bleeding and would not stop with pressure and pressure dressing. She came to the ED with a BP of 190/70 active bleeding in her arm and an INR of 2.1. I applied Celox and a pressure dressing and 10 min later she was bloodless and after washing off the Celox she went on to dialysis.
Case two was a 48 year old male with varicose veins in his leg and foot. EMS was called after one began bleeding. Simple pressure was not very effective in stopping it. EMS applied Celox and bandaged the foot. He came to the ED with no further bleeding. Celox was washed off and he was discharged without further need for treatment.
What a wonderful outcome to two problematic cases with a very simple solution. It is not just gunshot and stab wounds that benefit from this wonderful product, but every day events.
Marvin Wayne, MD, FACEP, FAAEM

Wanted to let you know that we used Celox in a patient with a venous stasis wound of the leg that would not stop bleeding for several days – she had a coagulopathy on top of the physical wound. We used celox and the bleeding stopped immediately – we left it in and did not wash it out – the wound seemed to heal well, although she will likely always have the wound…
Thanks again
John P. Pryor, MD, FACS

I had the opportunity to use Celox for unstoppable atraumatic bleeding from an external tumor. I stripped the existing bandaging off the area, applied the Celox all the way around and over the tumor, then placed trauma dressings and applied pressure with Coban. During the transport to the hospital, no further bleeding was noted. Once at the hospital, most of the Celox was removed, but there was no blood loss. The ED staff was very impressed, as was I. This call would have definitely turned out differently with Celox. What a wonderful product!
Eric Augustus
Critical Care Paramedic

We had a elderly lady with a massive facial tumor who developed bleeding from her tumor at home. Fire departments responded to the scene and were not able to control bleeding. Evaluation by paramedics with the ambulance service not able to stop the bleeding with pressures either. The paramedic then chose to use Celox and with pressure the bleeding was rapidly controlled and the patient was transported to the emergency room for definitive care. The emergency department was very happy with the care provided to the patient
Erling Oksenholt DO FACEP, FACOEP

As I was passing over the bridge I witness an overturned SUV on the left hand side, inside the grassy median. I turned my Blue Emergency Signal Lights on and slowed to a stop. I got out of my truck and approached the citizens that were stumbling out of the vehicle. As I approached I noticed 2 small female children, 1 middle aged Hispanic female and 1 middle aged Hispanic male. I ran to the girls and asked if they were ok. I then asked if the Middle Aged female was ok. They did not understand me very well because their primary language seemed to be Spanish. I then approached the Middle aged male and saw that he was holding an infant that seemed to be around 1 year of age. The infant was bleeding profusely. I open the blanket the Hispanic male had him in and realized that the infants head had been cut severely and looked to be fatal if not treated extremely quickly. The skin was cut an inch from the center of the forehead all the way down to the middle of the ear on the left hand side. The cut was 4 - 5 inches minimum. I told him to stay right here while I got my medical kit. I ran back to my truck. I got 2 blankets and my medical kit. I gave a blanket to the children and a blanket to the middle aged woman and told them to keep warm because it was 10 degrees with low visibility because of the wind and freezing fog. At that time another male ( off duty sheriff deputy) pulled over and took the children and put them in his truck. I approached the infant again and told the father that we need to place the skin back where it should be and then put CELOX on the wound to stop the bleeding or else the infant would die of blood loss. I instructed for the father to hold the infants head completely still and tell the boy to keep his eyes closed no matter what because the CELOX should not get in his eyes. The father did what I instructed. I then opened my medical kit, took out a pair of gloves and placed them on my hands to not contaminate the infant or myself. I then got the package of CELOX and an Abdominal wrap. I placed the skin back into place the best I could. I then took the bandage and placed it at a 45 degree angle on the wound to shield the wind from blowing the CELOX off the skin. I then poured the CELOX onto the skin and wrapped the bandage around the infants head. I tied off the bandage and wrapped a piece of tap around the bandage to secure it. I then took my permanent marker that was supplied in the medical kit and wrote, “CELOX - Hemostatic agent - used on infant.” I gave the package of CELOX for the father to hold and give to the paramedics. At this point a Texas State Police Officer appeared at the scene and soon after the EMS crew showed. I told the State Police Officer what happened and then told the EMS. One of the EMS crew members asked how I put it on there and said that I did it properly. He also said that if I wouldn’t have rendered aid or had a medical kit to this stature on my person the infant would have best case scenario severe brain damage due to massive blood loss or worst case scenario (most likely) the bleeding would have proven fatal because infants don’t have near as much blood as adults and he had already lost a lot of blood. I then gave my statement to the State Police Officer, Asked if they needed any other assistance and they said they were good to go. I left the scene and was on my way home again. If not for the product CELOX this infant would have died.
Zachary

I work as a Paramedic at Skyline Hospital in White Salmon, WA. I want to share my experience with the Celox product. Our crew was dispatched to a large caliber GSW to the chest. After isolating the right lung, both entrance and exit wounds were sealed using the Celox product. The patient was able to maintain excellent vitals through-out the transport to the receiving hospital. Celox enabled us to focus less on the injury and more on other life saving skills. All staff members involved commented on the lack of blood loss present for such a significant wound. After seeing the effectiveness of this product I recommend using Celox as the first-line in hemorrhage control agent.
Nicholas Puff
Paramedic