Bloodstopper

Articles on this subject are available at the following Battlestar Wiki locations... This is a landing page allowing users to select the proper article based on their language. Please choose your language from the list below.

EnglishDeutscheFrançaisSearch

Powdered bloodstopper being applied to Gaeta's leg ^{(TRS: "Faith")}.

Bloodstopper is a generic term for a powder-based cauterizing agent used to prevent wounds from bleeding in an effective way. It immediately cauterizes gun-shot wounds and other types of bleedings. As the process creates heat, morpha is used along with it to ease the pain. Packets of the cauterizing agent, Hemostatik-A, It is included in standard Colonial Fleet medkits ^{(TRS: "Faith")}.

Related imagery

• 
  A packet of the Hemostatik-A "bloodstopper" cauterizing agent, produced by Picon Laboratories.

Notes

• The idea of bloodstopper comes from writer Bradley Thompson.
• Similar combat coagulants, such as QuikClot, are used by today's armies.

[Template fetch failed for https://en.battlestarwiki.org/Bloodstopper/de?action=render: HTTP 404]

{{#if:|{{:fr:{{{fr}}}}}[[fr:{{{fr}}}]|[Template fetch failed for https://en.battlestarwiki.org/Bloodstopper/fr?action=render: HTTP 404]}}

• Search the Media Repository for All Relating to Bloodstopper
• Search the Media Repository for Files Relating to Bloodstopper