To quickclot or not?
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Yorkshire Andy
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Re: To quickclot or not?
We got taught if you can't get a pressure dressings in use it if you can get direct pressure on use a pressure dressings for 5 mins if bleeding doesn't stop the go for celox or a cat
If your roughing it, Your doing it wrong 
Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
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SaintJimmy671
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Re: To quickclot or not?
What Yorkshire Andy said 
Haemostatic gauze is great if direct pressure alone won't work (which is rare - it's amazing how bad a bleed direct pressure will sort), but QuikClot is an absolute nightmare; it'll stop the bleed, but it's hell for the A&E staff to remove. Even if it were a TEOTWAWKI situation, you'll just end up with a bleed that has stopped, but no way to safely remove the stuff you put on it, and will probably end up dying of an infection instead. Oops.
Tourniquets (actual ones, not makeshift ones) are great too, but only as a last resort for something that's so bad it's redecorating everything in a 12 foot radius!
Haemostatic gauze is great if direct pressure alone won't work (which is rare - it's amazing how bad a bleed direct pressure will sort), but QuikClot is an absolute nightmare; it'll stop the bleed, but it's hell for the A&E staff to remove. Even if it were a TEOTWAWKI situation, you'll just end up with a bleed that has stopped, but no way to safely remove the stuff you put on it, and will probably end up dying of an infection instead. Oops.
Tourniquets (actual ones, not makeshift ones) are great too, but only as a last resort for something that's so bad it's redecorating everything in a 12 foot radius!
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