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January 2010 Top EMS Innovation Awards for 2009
SAM Pelvic Sling II selected as a Top 20 Product Pick for 2009 from EMS Expo.
November 2009 SAM Medical Products receives a 2009 Best of What’s New Award from Popular Science for its CELOX Trauma Gauze
SAM Medical Products today announced that they have received a 2009 Best of What’s New Award from Popular Science in the Health category for their new CELOX Trauma Gauze product.
November 13, 2009 Sierra Club Trails: Anatomy of a blister
Web article about the technology behind Blist-O-Ban.
September 2009 (Dutch Magazine) Vakblad V&VN Ambulance Zorg
Prehospitale behandeling van levensbedreigende Bekkenringfracturenl
September 2009 Comparison of 10 hemostatic dressings in a groin puncture model in swine
Hemostatic dressings offer promise in the military and civilian surgical environment for hemorrhage control in difficult situations.
August 18, 2009 SAM Medical Products Named to Inc. 5000 List of the Fastest Growing Private Companies in America  
For the third year in a row, SAM Medical Products, a Portland, Oregon medical products manufacturer, made the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest growing private companies in America.
August 10, 2009 CELOX Trauma Gauze Stops Blood Loss and Protects Burns with Two-in-One Product
SAM Medical Products today announced the launch of CELOX Trauma Gauze™ at the U.S. Department of Defense’s Advanced Technology Applications for Combat Casualty Care (ATACCC) meeting in Tampa, Fla. CELOX Trauma Gauze is a new dual-purpose hemostatic gauze used to control traumatic bleeding and cool and protect first- and second-degree burns.
July 10, 2009 3G medical team in Afghanistan (CELOX quoted)
Bringing along their 3G medical gear, the SAF's 39-strong medical team had gone to Afghanistan to help provide medical support. RazorTV speaks to one medic who had been there for six months. CELOX mentioned.
June 2009 AMBULANCE: about Celox, the lifesaving haemostat
Celox is a lifesaving haemostat with the tested and proven ability to effectively stop bleeding within minutes.
June 12, 2009 Recurrence of Chronic Ulcers
At 2 weeks post epithelialization, the skin has less than 4% of the strength of healthy skin.  Read more about the high recurrence of chronic ulcers.
June 12, 2009 JEMS Magazine - JEMS Hot Products 2009
CELOX-D from SAM Medical Products
June 1, 2009 Comparison of a SAM Splint-Molded Cervical Collar with a Philadelphia Cervical Collar
Medical emergencies in the wilderness setting include a vast array of both injury and illness. Because of the catastrophic outcome possible with a cervical spine injury, it is generally accepted that the cervical spine should be immobilized for extrication of trauma patients in both the urban and the wilderness setting.
May 21, 2009 SAM Medical Products® and Water-Jel® Announce Strategic European Alliance
The alliance has been established to share in numerous advantages that better serve both companies’ European business. Key cooperative areas will be sales, marketing, and training support for European efforts.
May, 2009 Emergency First Aid Kits for Arborists and Loggers
Even if the situation isn’t particularly life threatening, proper aid can go a long way toward alleviating pain and minimizing damage.
May, 2009 To your health
Though SAM Medical Products’ granular hemostatic agent, CELOX, is geared for gaping wounds in life-threatening blood loss, Steve Melia has found it handy for something a little more everyday.
April 14, 2009 Battlefield treatment helps rescuers save climber after fall
Mountain rescuers used an innovative medical treatment to help save the life of a climber at the weekend.
March 26, 2009

Cherrie Scheinberg Honored Recipient of Orchid Award
Cherrie Scheinberg, President of SAM Medical Products, is honored as a recipient of the 2009 Orchid Award for Portland’s top women in business.

January 28, 2009 A New Hemostatic Agent: Initial Life-Saving Experience With Celox (Chitosan) in Cardiothoracic Surgery,
Celox is a proprietary preparation of chitosan, indicated for moderate to severe hemorrhage and currently used for hemostasis in the emergency and military settings. We describe its lifesaving use in two patients undergoing cardiothoracic surgery in which conventional techniques had failed.
January 27, 2009 The Arizona Republic - Simple to elaborate: Cards won't give up their pregame rituals
“Without his elaborate rituals, Cards safety Matt Ware said the game wouldn't go well. His routine always must proceed like this: Cut off six pieces of surgical tape, four long and two short. Get two H-shaped bandages, plus four Blist-O-Ban blister bandages for his toes and feet.”
December 15, 2008 CELOX GAUZE Stopping Blood Loss With A New Hemostatic Coated Gauze
SAM Medical Products introduces gauze coated with its proprietary CELOX™ hemostatic granules to help control life threatening bleeding from traumatic wounds.

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December 8, 2008 90 Second SAM Splint Instructional Videos Now Available On YouTube.com
SAM Medical Products® has released eighteen 90 second SAM Splint “How To” mini videos on YouTube for a quick, free visual reference for emergency medical professionals.
October 22, 2008 US Marine Corp Awards SAM Medical Products® Contract for Further Development of Hemostatic Agent
SAM Medical Products was selected by the United States Marine Corp and the Naval Health Research Center to receive a $1.2 million contract to be used in part for the development of new delivery systems for their CELOX™ wound treatment and the development of higher performance CELOX chemistries to better treat life-threatening bleeding associated with battlefield trauma.

October 7, 2008

CELOX-A Hemostatic Applicator Receives EU CE Mark
SAM Medical Products has obtained the European Union CE Mark certification for the use of its CELOX-A hemostatic product.  The CE Mark, which stands for European Conformity, asserts that the item meets all essential requirements of the relevant European Directives.

October 1, 2008 Memphis Downtowner - Medical Miracles: Sam Splint
September 17, 2008 CELOX-D Dissolvable Bag Controls Life Threatening Blood Loss
SAM Medical Products announces the launch of CELOX-D™, a product designed to effectively control rapid bleeding from traumatic wounds by using dissolvable bags filled with a blood clotting agent to promote rapid coagulation.  The dissolvable bags allow for ease of placement of the agent directly to the source of the bleeding.
September 8, 2008 SAM Medical Products Named to Inc. 5000 List of the Fastest Growing Private Companies in America
For the second year in a row, SAM Medical Products, a Portland, OR medical products manufacturer, made the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest growing private companies in America.
September 3, 2008 Local Oregon Company, SAM Medical Products, Donates Emergency Medical Supplies for Hurricane Gustav
Local company, SAM Medical Products, has donated a large supply of its weatherproof splints, wound medicine, and other vital emergency provisions in response to Hurricane Gustav. On Friday, SAM Medical Products sent via overnight delivery its SAM splints, CELOX wound care medicine, and SAM Pelvic Slings to a local relief organization who established a base in Louisiana in preparation for emergency and disaster relief efforts.
September 1, 2008 Outdoor Life - Outdoors E.R.
Accidents happen in the wilderness. Here’s how to be prepared for them
June 19, 2008 CELOX The Gainesville Police Department upgrades to trauma kits
The trauma kits also contain a hemostatic agent, Celox, which is a super absorbent substance that aids in clotting. Celox is used mainly for more serious conditions like arterial bleeding.
May 22, 2008 Blist-O-Ban At Trail’s End, There’s Nothing Like Happy Feet
“This was my favorite,” said Ms. Garofalini. “It completely halted any progress and cured” a developing blister, she said, adding that it was “easy to apply, undetectable while walking and stayed put perfectly.”
April 18, 2008 SAM Splint The Straits Times, Singapore
“For fractures: Dr. Sam Scheinberg and his wife Cherrie, show off the flexible splint he invented at the military medicine conference here.
April 1, 2008 JEMS (Journal of Emergency Medical Services) - Hands On: Product Reviews from Street Crews
Fight blisters with blisters.
March 1, 2008 Law Officer-March 2008 - Clotting Agents
Here’s the scoop on these lifesaving tools.
February 1, 2008 TechLink
Innovative Wound Care: Ensuring rapid delivery of new technology to the US warfighter
January 1, 2008 EMS Magazine - EMS Expo 2007 Top Product Picks
CELOX-A from SAM Medical Products
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