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(Medical-NewsWire.com, December 15, 2015 ) Clearwater, Florida -- Today First Aid Shoppe reported that the clotting agent in the trauma sponge included in their ResQue 1st Trauma Kit With SWAT-T Tourniquet is recommended for use by the US Department of Defense, and is in use by the US Military for treatment of severe battlefield trauma and hemorrhaging. First Aid Shoppe is a provider of high-end first aid and survival kits and specialized gear.
"The military uses this same hemostatic, or clotting agent," says First Aid Shoppe COO, Anna Loehwing. "It's what's called a clotting sponge, and it's designed to be used quickly on the scene to stop bleeding fast. The sponge with the hemostatic agent is applied directly to the wound and the agent immediately begins accelerating the body's natural clotting action."
After airway obstruction and breathing/cardio failure, bleeding is the number one threat in a serious trauma. Stopping the bleeding fast is the primary concern, and the ResQue 1st Trauma Kit With SWAT-T Tourniquet from First Aid Shoppe is designed specifically with this in mind. The kit contains two key items; the SWAT-T Tourniquet, and the QuikClot Advanced Clotting Sponge. The tourniquet can be applied quickly and high into the armpit or groin area to stem the flow of arterial bleeding. In conjunction or separately, the QuikClot clotting sponge can be applied directly to the site of an injury to stem or stop the flow of bleeding.
"These are serious solutions for serious situations," says Ms. Loehwing. "It's a small kit, you can keep it easily in the glovebox, and yet if someone is hurt bad and bleeding fast, with this kit you have a great chance of saving their life. It's got gloves and bandages and a few other things, and that's it. This is not a general purpose first aid kit. It has one mission, and that's to stop serious bleeding fast."
QuikClot uses zeolite, a fast clotting agent approved for use by the DoD. This agent is used by the US Military to treat battlefield trauma and serious hemorrhaging.
About First Aid Shoppe
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Anna Loehwing
727-442-4372
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