| 20100197893 | METHOD TO PRODUCE FIBRIN MONOMER IN ACID MEDIA FOR USE AS TISSUE SEALANT - ClotFoam is an hemostatic agent designed for use in cases of non-compressible hemorrhage. It can be applied outside the operating room through a mixing needle and/or a spray injection method following abdominal, chest, extremities or other intracavitary severe trauma to promote hemostasis, or it can be used in the operating room for laparoscopic procedures or other surgical procedures in which compression is not possible or recommended. Its crosslinking technology generates an adhesive three-dimensional polymeric network or scaffold that carries a fibrin sealant required for hemostasis. When mixed, Clotfoam produces a foam that spreads throughout a body cavity reaching the lacerated tissue to seal tissue and promote the coagulation cascade. The viscoelastic attachment properties of the foam as well as the rapid formation of a fibrin clot that ensure that the sealant remains at the site of application without being washed away by blood or displaced by movement of the target tissue. The fibrin components are produced by a novel method which does not present thrombin to immune system and can be maintained in solution for six weeks without significant proteolytic degradation. | 08-05-2010 |
