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OKCEL Ca-L

Oxidized cellulose, calcium salt (CAS Registry No.: 52001-91-9)

Form:

Loose fine white to yellow powder. Linter form.

Properties:

Biocompatible, biodegradable and bioresorbable material with hemostatic and healing properties. It is bacteriostatic and easily absorbed in human organism. OKCEL Ca-L demonstrates a positive influence on wound treatment, on chronic wounds included.

Application:

It is used in human and veterinary medicine as a sterile stop bleeding agent (esp. for treatment of small wounds), most often in form of powders, sprays, or as a component of hemostatic pins. The calcium salt of oxidized cellulose can be used as a component of materials for chronic wound treatment (esp. for diabetes ulcers), or as a component in pharmaceutical preparations or tablet ingredients. It can be also used for various applications in surgery or also for consumer wound care products.

     

 

Property / Characteristic

 

 

Unit

 

 

Limit

 

 

Identity test

 

 

-

 

 

Must correspond

 

 

Content of carboxyl groups

 

 

% (w/w)

 

 

16-24

 

 

Limit of formaldehyde

 

 

% (w/w)

 

 

Must correspond

 

 

Limit of nitrogen

 

 

% (w/w)

 

 

Max. 0,5

 

 

Loss on drying

 

 

% (w/w)

 

 

max. 15

 

 

Residue on ignition

 

 

% (w/w)

 

 

Max. 0,15

 

 

Content of calcium

 

 

% (w/w)

 

 

4,5 – 7,0

 

 

Particle size

 

 

mm

 

 

According to customer   requirements

 

 

pH in   1% by weight water extract

 

 

-

 

 

3,5 – 5,0

 

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