CUSTOM BLEEDING CONTROL KITS FOR SCHOOLS, CHURCHES, & BUSINESSES.

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Active Participant in Stop The Bleed® Education Programs

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Now that schools have begun adopting Stop The Bleed training, they often receive poor or no guidance on what kits to buy or how to get training.

The Stop the Bleed Initiative, the First Care Provider Course Series, and the Bleeding Control course concept were designed to encourage bystanders to gain training in hemorrhage control. As schools have learned about this initiative, they have begun adding medical supplies and training to their school hardening plans.

Many schools, however, have fallen prey to not knowing what equipment to purchase or what training to obtain.

Recently, a school district in Florida bought 800 counterfeit tourniquets. The school was presented with this evidence and initially ignored the information, stating that what they had “was better than nothing”. The school subsequently agreed to remove the tourniquets but only after intense efforts led by very prominent members of the tactical medicine community via social media.

Had it not been for this effort, the school would have put all their students and staff at risk.

The FDA describes these as dangerous and recommends destroying them. These Chinese knock-offs are not made to any recognized standard; the plastic is flimsy and cheap, the stitching pulls out, and they have broken during real-world emergencies when applied to wounded casualties.

We understand buying tourniquets and first aid gear can be confusing. There are many companies cashing in on the Bleeding Control and Active Shooter “Gearmongering”, selling bleeding control kits full of useless, low-quality components. The Department of Defense’s TCCC committee recommends several tourniquets with evidence supporting their efficacy, and even among those tourniquets, some have more evidence supporting their use. Your kit should contain one of these TCCC recommended tourniquets, otherwise, you may be using one without good evidence supporting its efficacy. Additionally, it is very difficult to pick out the genuine tourniquet from a cheap knockoff.

Our message to you is: Don’t select life-saving equipment based on cost or appearance.

Currently, the only TCCC recommended tourniquets found in bleeding control kits are:

Combat Application Tourniquet (C-A-T) Gen 7 and Gen 6 This tourniquet is by far the most commonly counterfeited.
SOF Tactical Tourniquet – Wide (SOFT-W) While not as commonly counterfeited as the CAT, there are some Chinese knockoffs on the market.
Tactical Mechanical Tourniquet (TMT)
Ratcheting Medical Tourniquet -Tactical (RMT-T)
SAM Extremity Tourniquet (SAM-XT)

Medical evidence shows tourniquets are only 70% effective on thighs. You need to learn the next step in the plan. Placing two tourniquets side-by-side increases their effectiveness by 10%. If that still isn’t working, you need to know how to pack a wound. We know this is scary information, and we are here ready and willing to assist you.

The takeaway from this page is to realize that obtaining proper education and training is the best way to avoid getting counterfeit or unproven tourniquets and bleeding control kits. In order for you to create a cohesive treatment plan, you need both good equipment and good training to learn how best to use it. Your training must be both academically sound and tactically realistic, the first time you see a critically wounded person should not be when you are trying to render aid to a student or your colleague.

“You owe it to yourself, your students, or your coworkers to give us a call and let us help you ensure you have the proper plan in place.”

WE CAN HELP YOU DESIGN THE RIGHT BLEEDING CONTROL KIT FOR YOUR STOP THE BLEED® PROGRAM

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We are happy to work with you one-on-one in order to built you an awesome kit that will fit your operational, budgetary, and end- user skill requirement.

ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE

“Hey, we saw a couple of kits that we liked and wanted to know if you can sort of combine the two, can you help?”

Yeah, I'm thinking we can! Thankfully we have some very good medical equipment distributors in our area that helped us put together the components for any particular requirement on a moments notice.

We can bundle equipment from different manufacturers into your very own custom made bleeding control kit. We have access to all the major tactical medicine equipment brands, as well as our own private label supplies and even international lines