Preparation and characterization of crosslinked porous starch hemostatic

In order to develop starch hemostatic materials with excellent hemostatic properties, the preparation of crosslinked porous starch (SPS) with sodium trimetaphosphate (STMP) as cross-linking agent was studied in this paper. When the solid-liquid ratio of porous starch (PS) was 30%, the mass ratio of cross-linking agent to starch was 0.04-1, and the SPS was crosslinked at pH 10.0, 55 °C for 50-60 min, the water absorption ratio and swelling ratio of SPS reach up to 160.5% and 239.1%, respectively. The characterization by infrared spectra, scanning electron microscopy and X-Ray diffraction spectra confirmed that the structure of SPS is similar to that of PS. The degradation experiment in vitro indicated that the degradation effect of PS was better than that of SPS. The whole blood coagulation kinetics experiment showed that SPS could promote the formation of blood clot, and the adsorption experiment of red blood cells in vitro showed that SPS could adsorb red blood cells. The average hemostasis time of SPS in tail amputation 1 cm and liver laceration were 181.03 s and 179.30 s.