NY-Area Paramedic Wins 2007 Francis X. Hursey Award for Heroic Use of QuikClot(R)...

NY-Area Paramedic Wins 2007 Francis X. Hursey Award for Heroic Use of
QuikClot(R) Blood Clotting Product
Manufacturer Z-Medica Corp Cites First Responder For Saving Life of Motorcycle
Accident Victim with Severed Femoral Artery

WALLINGFORD, Conn., March 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Executives of Z-Medica
Corporation (Z-Medica) today presented the company's 2007 Francis X. Hursey
Award to Rockland Paramedic Services (RPS) Medic 21 member John McCullough for
his heroic use of its breakthrough QuikClot(R) 1st Response(TM) brand
hemostatic agent to save the life of a motorcycle accident victim with a torn
femoral artery. The Hursey Award -- a presentation sculpture and a $1000 check
to the recipient's charity of choice -- is presented annually to, "the
civilian first responder who best exemplifies the Z-Medica creed: The greatest
privilege is to make a difference." It is named for Frank Hursey, the
discoverer of QuikClot(R) who, with Z-Medica CEO Raymond J. Huey, made the
presentation to McCullough before an audience of officials of Orangetown, New
York, where the accident occurred, members of the public, representatives of
RPS, and the woman whose life was saved -- now recovered. Her appearance drew
tears and applause from the room as her fiancee had been killed instantly.
When paramedic McCullough arrived at the May 2007 accident scene, he
observed the victim with a life-threatening injury involving a tear of the
femoral artery. A tourniquet applied by bystanders was not working.
Calling on his training, McCullough applied QuikClot(R) 1st Response(TM)
to the wound, and immediately stopped the arterial bleeding. Stabilized, the
victim was airlifted to the Westchester Medical Center Trauma Center in
Valhalla, New York. According to RPS, the Westchester trauma team attributed
the victim's survival and good outcome to paramedic McCullough's intervention
with QuikClot.
"We applaud John McCullough and Rockland Paramedic Services for providing
the citizens in its coverage area with the latest and most effective blood
clotting technology," said Z-Medica CEO Ray Huey. "They share our commitment
to greatly reducing the more than 50,000 U.S. lives lost each year from
traumatic bleeding -- mostly in traffic accidents. We were very touched to
meet this wonderful woman who is alive because of QuikClot. Her courage to
attend despite her loss is inspirational and her example will help to save
others."
RPS was the first EMS group in the Hudson Valley region of New York State
to test and deploy QuikClot(R) 1st Response(TM). It has reported a number of
effective usages since adopting QuikClot(R) in 2007. Since his actions that
won the Hursey Award, McCullough again used QuikClot(R) 1st Response(TM) brand
to save a second life -- a police officer who was struck by a truck while part
of a motorcycle escort detail.
John McCullough is the fourth recipient of the Hursey Award. Former
recipients are a corporal in the Pennsylvania State Police, Tunkhannock
Station, a deputy in the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Department, Tampa,
Florida, and an officer in the Marlborough, New York Police Department.
QuikClot(R) is an inert proprietary mineral product manufactured in
various formulations for different applications. The original formulation is
granular and poured directly into a wound. Later products consist of beads of
QuikClot(R) encased in a porous surgical fabric. These include QuikClot
ACS+(TM) (Advanced Clotting Sponge) and QuikClot(R) 1st Response(TM),
QuikClot(R) Combat Gauze(TM), a new product for the military and tactical
market and two consumer products, QuikClot(R) Sport(TM) brand and QuikClot(R)
Sport Silver(TM) brand (antimicrobial).
QuikClot(R) brand hemostatic product has been credited with saving more
than 150 lives in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is the most widely used hemostatic
first aid product available, with more than one million units deployed with
U.S. military troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, with first responders and
security organizations across the nation and in 36 countries around the globe.
About Z-Medica
Founded in 2002, Z-Medica Corporation is a medical products company
focused on innovative blood clotting nano-technologies. QuikClot(R) brand
hemostatic agent was developed in cooperation with the Office of Naval
Research (ONR), the U.S. Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory, the U.S. Marine
Corps Systems Command and university hospitals.
Z-Medica headquarters is located at 4 Fairfield Blvd., Wallingford,
Connecticut 06492. For more information, please call (203) 294.0000 or visit
www.z-medica.com.
About Rockland Paramedic Services
Rockland Paramedic Services is an advanced life support service, which
responds to all 911 medical emergencies in Rockland County, New York along
with the various volunteer ambulance corps in the county.
SOURCE Z-Medica Corporation

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