Dr Schuman, section editor for Peds v2.0, is clinical assistant professor of Pediatrics, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire, and editorial advisory board member of Contemporary Pediatrics.
The dressings are available in a variety of sizes and shapes. For smaller lacerations, HemCon offers KytoStat Bandages in strips. Its ChitoFlex Hemostatic Dressing are stuffable wound dressings for use in nosebleeds or packing deep wounds. Available from medical distributors, a box of five 2x2" HemCon Bandages for dressing wounds sells for about $130. A package of 24 single KytoStat Bandages sells for about $144, and the ChitoFlex Hemostatic Dressings sell for about $200 per package.
