Replies to post #3892 on Arch Therapeutics Inc (ARTH)

[Millstone]

Thanks for that BigK. Not sure that the comparator arm was anything beyond application of a water resistant dressing. If so, I think it would have mentioned the method, such as aluminum chloride.

Incidentally, exclusion criteria is an allergy to Tegaderm, which is the 3M Nexcare bandage: http://www.nexcare.com/3M/en_US/nexcare/products/catalog/?N=4326+3294631802&rt=rud

If it was only the bandage as the comparator, it seems like it would be hard to accurately determine time to hemostasis. After all, if you are bleeding from a cut and put a bandaid on that cut, it keeps the blood from leaving the body as a physical barrier, but what is the technical point of hemostasis?

This seems like the methodology puts AC5 at a disadvantage, since a bandaid does not truly "stop the bleeding" in the biological manner of AC5.

Don't know if this has been posted previously, but here is a summary of the various hemostatic methods in existence from 2013: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3752468/