I have these in my FAK's:

http://homeware.fiskars.com/web/fiskarsweb.nsf/en/scissors_avanti_paper_scissors_839959




These scissors cut through bandages an jeans like butter. Long cutting edge for making steri-strips and they feel very solid.

EMT shere are kind of like knives or anything normal product, meaning there are great ones and terrible ones.

a pair of high quality EMT sheers will cut through anything and last for years. a pair of cheep ones will just about break trying to cut a stick on badage (aka band-aid)

I am not sure if they are all autoclavable, I would sugest rather than buying them online (unless you know the quality of the item you are buying) go to an EMS or Police supply store and feel them. look to see if they are autoclavable and see if they are sturdy. good quality ones will cut a pennie into a corkscrew easly.

I carry about 4 pair (not all at once) and I have them all over my house and a couple in my car. They are literaly life savers.

Check out the new design on the EMT type shears now offered by Lee Valley. No more annoying shelf-lip on the bottom shear, but still bluntnosed.

Many drug stores carry them. No way to say what any particular store carries might be good, bad, or somewhere in between but you can get your hands on them and judge their relative quality. Go to enough drugstores and examine enough of them and you should be able to gauge relative merit. Buy a few pairs, they are pretty cheap, and put them through their paces.

First pair I had I went around cutting all sorts of materials to get a feel for what they could do. I cut a nice 6" hole in a car door by jabbing the pointed blade in and cutting in a spiral. Impressed the hell out of me. I worked them abusively until the blades were dull and sprung.

Then I bowed the blades back, used a side grinder to resharpen them, and peened the rivet to tighten it up. They worked pretty well. Not as well as when new but good enough to reliably cut tape, gauze, cloth. As I remember it they are in one of my give-away kits. What can I say ... I'm cheap.