New development of this textile material, life-saving at a critical moment

It is well known that when a person is subjected to external trauma, it is easy to cause visible wounds and cause blood loss. Two-thirds of the deaths caused by trauma are caused by excessive blood loss. Therefore, effective control of the patient's bleeding at the first time of the incident is the key to fighting for treatment time and saving lives. In daily life, we usually use a clean cloth, paper towel or gauze to hold the wound until the bleeding stops. However, these materials generally do not have high hemostatic properties and cannot achieve rapid hemostasis.

In order to solve the problem of first aid hemostasis, Professor Fan Jie of Zhejiang University prepared a flexible zeolite cotton fiber composite. The hemostatic material has high hemostatic properties and reliable safety.

Prior to this, a large number of studies and applications have shown that zeolite-based inorganic hemostatic materials are most effective in the case of severe bleeding. However, zeolite hemostatic products will release a lot of heat when exposed to water or blood during use. The local temperature of the wound is above 90 °C, causing skin burns and affecting wound healing.

Professor Fan Jie has upgraded and upgraded the zeolite to solve this problem, and obtained a zeolite hemostatic agent with excellent hemostatic effect and mild exotherm. However, since the existing zeolite hemostatic agent is a hard inorganic powder material, it is easy to adhere to the wound, which is not conducive to wound debridement. Professor Fan Jie developed a zeolite fiber composite gauze.

The appearance and feel of the hemostatic material are almost indistinguishable from ordinary fibers, have good flexibility, and the zeolite is very strong in combination with cotton fibers. Professor Fan Jie believes that the use of zeolite fiber as a hemostatic garment to "wear" on the body is the most insured way to rescue, to achieve emergency hemostasis rescue anytime, anywhere.

At the same time, Professor Fan Jie also revealed that the emergency hemostasis life jacket is expected to come out in August this year. In addition, it can also manufacture a variety of products such as hemostatic towels and hemostatic gauze. It can be used as protection equipment for special sports such as outdoor sports, extreme sports, racing cars, etc. It can also be used as first aid equipment to play a role in accidents such as war, traffic, and earthquakes.