Product Description

Travel with confidence when your family is out exploring the world. Now your family's fastest responder is you!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6135 in Health and Beauty
• Brand: Adventure Medical Kits
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 4.00" h x 5.00" w x 6.00" l, .17 pounds

Features

• Most widely used over the counter hemostatic agent available.
• Promotes rapid natural clotting and can prevent severe blood loss
• Lightweight and compact makes it easy to pack and carry
• Perfect for scalp lacerations or bleeding when a bandage just isn't enough.
• Brought to you by the experts at Z-Medica

Customer Reviews

What's your life worth?
First aid kits are great for minor treatment, but when you're bleeding profusely, you need something to stop that bleeding or you'll die; simple as that. Tourniquets work when nothing else is available, but you can't tourniquet the abdomen or neck. Those are just two examples of places this item works better. Simple to use (I read the instructions but have not used it) and from what I've read it is quite effective (again, I have not used one). I keep one in my first aid kit on my motorcycle. I'd recommend one in a backpacker's kit, too, since it doesn't weigh much. I'm hoping I'll never need to use it, but I'm comforted to know I have it in case I need it.

Hope you never have to use it, but you'll be glad if you did
I do a lot of lakefront cycling in Chicago, and in a crowded bike path with joggers, you sometimes have people fall or get into accidents. A few months ago, another cyclist had a nasty collision and ended up with a nasty gash that bled. A few of us stopped and rendered assistance, and I gave her the Quikclot pack I had in my bag (I bought this primarily for myself, because I know it's only a matter of time before I take a fall and cut myself.) The poor girl used this to press down on the gash in her leg and the bleeding stopped rather quickly (I wasn't timing it, but if you're truly curious, there are videos on YouTube.)

The advantage of having QuikClot in a gauze is that you eliminate "panic hands" that you'd need to cover the wound (since QuikClot is a powder) that you'd just have to compress down with gauze anyway to try to stop the bleeding in a normal way.

It's one of those tradeoffs - sure, you might never use this at all, but if you need to attend to a major wound where blood loss is a concern, QuikClot gauze is awesome. The pack is small and fits into a small first aid kit (mine's in an Adventure Medical bag.) After seeing what it did firsthand, I'm sold. It'll stop or slow down the bleeding for you to get professional medical attention.