Proposed is a novel soluble trauma-healing and hemostatic cellulose fiber
capable of absorbing and readily dissolving hemorrhaging trauma loci when
applied thereto and of promoting the hemostatic action of blood platelets
and fibrin and cell adhesion to the trauma site. The coagulation
protein-containing soluble trauma-healing and hemostatic cellulose fiber
is produced in that after treatment of a natural or regenerated cellulose
fiber with an aqueous sodium hydroxide solution, said fiber is
carboxymethylated by reaction with a monochloro acetic acid solution for
a given time (hours) in such a manner that the degree of partial
substitution of the glucose units constituting the cellulose molecule
(etherification degree) is 0.5-less than 1.0% and that, furthermore, the
coagulation proteins fibrinogen, thrombin, and coagulation factor XIII
are imparted by surface application or chemical bonding.