About Bleeding Control

Stop profuse bleeding first. A patent airway is useless if the patients ability to carry oxygen to their cells is a sticky messy puddle on the ground.

Commercial military style compression bandages and tourniquets are you best investments. Hemostatics do work, but pressure dressings and tourniquets are more durable and more likely to be what you'll need. For the cost of 1 Celox Trauma Gauze you can get 2 - Compressions Dressings AND 2 - TK4 tourniquets.

For extremity wounds, if pressure doesn't stop the bleeding use the tourniquet. If the limb was savable prior to tourniquet application it still will be for HOURS after application.

Commercial tourniquets work better and are simpler (i.e. quicker) to apply. You don't need the most expensive models, the $5 TK4 work well. If you do want a more robust tourniquet, stick with models that don't have ratchets or cranks that could easily break. In my opnion, besides the TK4, CAT, SOF-T or the McMillian Tourniquet are the only decent tourniquets on the market. BE WARY of knockoffs!
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