Like the others have said, kerlex is the way to go. I personally like the Z-PAK Dressing which is basically a kerlex roll vacuum packed down into a smaller package that is no bigger then a stack of 20 4"x4" gauze pads. I can fit 4-6 of these in the same space as one 4" Kerlex roll.

Wound packing in the field for emergency care isn't the same as wound packing for long-term care/treatment. The goal is simply to stop bleeding, and some wounds are too big for bleeding to be controlled with other means. A patient requiring this, as others have stated, are usually in a bad way and need a surgeon and removal of the dressing and cleaning of the wound would more then likely be low in the priority list for this patient.

To paraphrase one of the medics who was in Solmolia for the Battle of the Black Sea; "You can never have enough Kerlex".