RHINO RESCUE Sterile Compressed Gauze for Emergency Wound Dressing, 6PC

Great product, great company, high quality and very compact. Comes with complimentary stickers for a water bottle or laptop

economic option for the trained first aid specialist.

I can fit two of these individual packs on my chest rig IFAK. Essential for any IFAK kit

Compressed very small and tight so carrying is easy. well packaged.

I am not an EMT or medical professional so let's get that out of the way. But neither are you if you are reading reviews for wound dressing on Amazon. That said, after some local classes on hiking/bush craft medical techniques, I learned the importance of having sterile wound dressing on hand. Although in a pinch you can rip up t-shirt material and stuff strips in a wound, it's likely a t-shirt will be dirty and may introduce bacteria into a deep wound. Ideally, you have a RHINO RESCUE compressed gauze package in your pack, or in your car, or your house if you're at home. That's why a multi-pack comes in handy. We've packed one of these into our med packs in each car, in our hiking packs and in our home medical supply cabinet. We opened a package as part of a test scenario, and it does rip open fairly easily/quickly without scissors or a blade using the tear marks. The gauze is highly compressed into a sort of brick that unfolds as you pull out the gauze from the package. You continue to pack it into the wound tightly while keeping finger pressure on the gauze as you continue packing to fill the cavity. The gauze helps to provide a surface to apply pressure to the underlying artery or source of the bleeding. It absorbs the fluids but the primary value is to give you something to press on top of the source of bleeding. Maintain that pressure for at least 3 minutes, or if possible until professional medical service arrive. Bleeding out is a serious risk that can be mitigated with just a bundle of this gauze and fingers applying pressure. The RHINO RESCUE Multipack leaves no reason to run into a situation without this life saving tool. This dressing is NOT hemostatic, which entails an additive chemical that is meant to create clotting to slow bleeding. However, from what I learned, there is actually no statistical advantage shown between the outcomes of using plain gauze versus one with a hemostat in it, which are typically much more expensive and they do expire. I would rather have multiple sterile gauze packages than a single more expensive package with a hemostat.