Clinical applications

From epistaxis to junctional hemorrhage

WoundClot® is indicated across the full spectrum of bleeding severity, which is why a single dressing serves departments that ordinarily stock different products.

01 — Trauma & emergency surgery

Trauma and emergency surgery

In the trauma bay and the emergency operating room, the limiting factors are personnel and time rather than the dressing itself. WoundClot® does not require prolonged heavy adjunctive pressure, so a single provider can place the dressing, apply hand weight, and proceed to the next intervention.

The 3" × 39" Z-fold configuration is intended for packing deep, irregular and junctional cavities where a flat pad cannot reach the bleeding surface. Because the gel adheres under high-pressure bleeding and is not dislodged by patient movement, it holds through transfer, imaging and positioning.

Junctional and cavitary wound packing
Operative and post-operative hemorrhage control
Effective in the coagulopathic trauma patient
Removed without re-bleeding at definitive repair

02 — Orthopedic surgery

Orthopedic surgery

Bone and cancellous surfaces bleed diffusely rather than from a controllable point, and they do so under conditions where cautery is of limited use. WoundClot® conforms to the surface and continues to absorb for up to 24 hours, which suits hip, knee and shoulder arthroplasty, spinal decompression and fusion, and oncologic resection.

Published case material covers hemostasis in orthopedic oncology surgery and in anterior cervical discectomy with fusion, alongside lumbar decompression and fusion.

Hip, knee and shoulder arthroplasty
Spinal decompression and fusion
Orthopedic oncology resection beds
Extremity and hand surgery

03 — Plastic & reconstructive

Plastic and reconstructive surgery

Donor sites and elevated flaps present broad raw surfaces where the goal is hemostasis without compromising the wound bed. WoundClot® is explicitly indicated for donor-site bleeding, does not generate a thermal reaction, and leaves no residue once the clot is lifted and the bed irrigated.

Because the gel adheres to tissue rather than to gloves or instruments, it can be positioned precisely on delicate surfaces without dragging.

Split-thickness donor sites
Flap elevation and undermined planes
Burn graft and donor-site bleeding
No exothermic reaction on fragile tissue

04 — Podiatry & foot / ankle

Podiatry and foot & ankle surgery

The podiatric population skews toward patients who are anticoagulated, diabetic or dysvascular — precisely the patients in whom pressure-dependent hemostats underperform. WoundClot® is effective in patients on antiplatelet and anticoagulant therapy and does not depend on sustained compression, which is difficult to apply to a toe or nail bed.

The 2" × 2" configuration suits nail avulsion, matrixectomy and digital procedures.

Nail avulsion and matrixectomy
Procedures in the diabetic or dysvascular foot
Bony and soft-tissue reconstruction
Conforms to digits without circumferential pressure

05 — Emergency department

Emergency department

One dressing covers the range of presentations typical of an emergency department: epistaxis in an anticoagulated patient, scalp laceration, dental avulsion socket, skin tears in the elderly, and severe extremity hemorrhage. WoundClot® is appropriate for use on mucous membranes, including nasal and oral bleeding.

Application requires minimal instruction — a relevant consideration where the dressing may be placed by a technician, agency nursing staff or a junior resident.

Epistaxis, including on anticoagulation
Lacerations and avulsions
Dental extraction and avulsion sockets
Skin tears and severe extremity hemorrhage

06 — Wound care & vascular access

Chronic wound care, dialysis & access

Sharp debridement of a chronic wound reliably produces bleeding in a patient who is often anticoagulated and whose peri-wound tissue will not tolerate firm compression. The same constraint applies at dialysis needle sites, arteriovenous fistulae and grafts, central venous catheters, PICC lines and implanted ports.

WoundClot® achieves hemostasis with placement pressure alone and is removed by lifting the clot, so the wound bed is not re-injured on dressing change.

Post-debridement bleeding
AV fistula and graft needle sites
Central venous catheter and PICC sites
Implanted port access and skin tears

Also indicated

Further settings

Cardiology

Pacemaker and ICD pocket hemostasis prior to closure.

ENT

Sinonasal surgery and anterior epistaxis; suitable for mucous membranes.

Dermatology & Mohs

Excisions, shave biopsies and staged Mohs defects on anticoagulated patients.

Interventional radiology

Access-site hemostasis and friable tumor-bed bleeding.

Oncology

Port and PICC site bleeding; bleeding from vascular encasement by tumor.

Obstetrics & gynecology

Postpartum bleeding and abnormal placentation, per institutional protocol.

Burn care

Graft and donor-site bleeding without a thermal reaction.

Endoscopic surgery

Hemostasis in confined operative fields.

Scope of this page

The settings described here reflect the manufacturer's published application material and case literature. They do not extend the FDA cleared Indications for Use, which cover the temporary control of mild, moderate and severe external bleeding and bleeding at operative, post-operative and donor sites. Clinical use remains a matter of professional judgment and institutional protocol.

Specialty primers available

We can supply application primers for trauma and emergency surgery, orthopedics, plastic surgery, podiatry, the emergency department and chronic wound care — written for the clinicians in that department.

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