Combat Gauze XL

Product Features:

Dimensions: 10 cm x 3.65 m

Hemostatic dressings are currently a basic component of every combat medic kit. Their effectiveness has been confirmed in countless operations around the world, in all weather and temperature conditions.

QuikClot® dressings are the first and, so far, the most advanced hemostatic product on the market. Their current, third generation, unlike all other products of this type, is impregnated with an inert inorganic mineral called KAOLIN. This preparation works on the principle of activating plasma factors (XII and XI) in the presence of kallikrein and high molecular weight kininogen. The process of chain stimulation of factor FXI ends with the formation of a fibrin clot.

Kaolin-based hemostatic dressings have been repeatedly tested in laboratory and combat conditions. The US Army Institute of Surgical Research (USAISR) and the Naval Medical Research Center conducted independent animal studies in which the effectiveness of various hemostatic dressings on cut femoral arteries was examined. The effects of QuikClot gauze with kaolin, QuikClot placebo gauze (without kaolin), HemCon gauze, Celox-D, and TraumaStat were compared. QuikClot gauze, containing kaolin, proved to be the most effective of all dressings tested by USAISR. The use of this gauze allowed the greatest number of bleeds to be stopped and the highest survival rate among the animals studied.

The Tactical Combat Casualty Care Committee (TC3) has designated QuikClot gauze as the first-line product for life-threatening external bleeding that cannot be secured with a tourniquet. The TC3 protocol modification was based on the results of USAISR research.