1. An agent for use in treating bleeding wounds in mammals, in the form of a flexible sheet material formed from an organic polymer material comprising at least one particulate crystalline inorganic polyphosphate, wherein the organic polymer material forms a sheet-like continuous matrix in which the particles of the particulate crystalline inorganic polyphosphate are present in the organic polymer material in finely divided form, such that the polymer material at least partly surrounds the particles of the particulate crystalline inorganic polyphosphate distributed therein, the polyphosphate at 20° C. having a solubility in deionized water of less than 5 g/L and the anion of the polyphosphate having a number average of at least four phosphorus atoms per polyphosphate anion.
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