Field eXpedients: Quik-Clot Life Saving Powder-and Now Gauze

Quik-Clot will stop arterial bleeding and save lives and limbs as this video shows. The new combat gauze works the same way but isn't a powder that might get blown about in the wind or helicopter downwash. EVERY Soldier should have Quik-Clot in his Individual First Aid Kit (I-FAK).

New Gauze to Pack the Wound:

http://www.combatmedicalsystems.com/about.html

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• arterial
• bleeding
• quik-clot
• first
• aid
• combat
• lifesavers

[DEFORCER]

This will save lives. Is it in the field fright now?

[dynmicpara]

Yes, its helped us save hundreds of lives. As bad as Iraq is it could be even worse; we could be wheeled road land mine kill and have BAD emergency medicine; KIAs would be 8, 000 if not higher

[legalboxer]

"They just threw it in the garbage"

Not likely. Even back in the 60s we used pigs and goats, and almost all of them survived .

We nerve-gassed the goats and used first aid & atropine, and I never saw a goat that didn't make it. Afterward, they went back to the farmer we "rented" them from.

Same thing with the pigs, after we anesthetized them, shot them and treated the wound. They recupped for about two weeks and went straight back to the farm.

Better than having soldiers die.

[jaysnipr107]

QuickClot saved my life.

[Craigthepope]

@tractorkid223 I think Walmart sells it, if not than there's always Amazon.

[TheZoelzer2]

omg, damn shit, vomits*

[thehughis]

this is amazing

[FUTUREOFPASSE]

pig was bleeding like... a stuck pig?

[SunnyMuffinsRox]

Essence of dittany in real life :D

[elbrain86]

Awsome stuff! I work on a Hotshot crew in northern california and we started to carry Quickclot about 2 seasons ago. luckily we have not had to use it.

[ThatScottishGuy2010]

This is a break through in medicine. Nice work.

[Master11782]

The wonders of modern medicine never cease to amaze me. Makes me proud to be in the EMS field.

[XMadIrishmanX]

This is the coolest thing I have ever seen...

[TheRedstar91]

@MrQuackism

"100% survivability"

I assume it survived.