Originally Posted By: chaosmagnet
Originally Posted By: NightHiker
DO NOT use any clotting agent that come in a powdered or granualar format.


I was taught to use it for a life-threatening bleed that isn't on an extremity, such as a gunshot wound to the torso, if wound packing and direct pressure doesn't work.

The granular forms are phased out (if not entirely, then mostly). The military SOLELY uses combat gauze at this time.

Has everything to do with embolisms and little to do with heat.