A through-and-through has two holes. The T3 puts a sterile pad for each of them, and the gauze, in the same package.
At a glance
12 things to know about the T3 Bandage
What the second pad and the gauze are for, how to handle two wounds with one package, and where it fits in a kit.
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The original Emergency Bandage, extended
PerSys built the T3 on the design of the original Emergency Bandage® — the Israeli bandage — and calls it a compression kit in the palm of your hand.3 Bernard Bar-Natan invented the original in Israel in 1993; the U.S. military made it standard issue in 2003.9
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Two sterile pads
The main pad measures 4 × 7 in. (10 × 18 cm), and a second, detachable pad of the same size expands the dressing or comes off to cover another wound.3
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Built for entry and exit wounds
PerSys names entry and exit wounds, conventional wounds, abdominal and large wounds, and amputations as the T3's jobs.3 A penetrating wound often has a second hole — check the whole casualty for more wounds, the back included.1
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Gauze in the same package
A 4 × 29.5 in. (10 × 75 cm) folded gauze rides inside for cleaning a wound or as a secondary dressing.3 It is plain gauze, not a hemostatic: for life-threatening bleeding from a wound you can pack, pack a evidence-based standard hemostatic gauze first — Combat Gauze is the evidence-based hemostatic dressing of choice.1
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Pressure applicator, leader and closure
An integrated pressure applicator puts direct pressure on the wound; the OD green elasticized leader expands to 4 × 145 in. (10 × 370 cm); a Stop-N-Go® release controls the wrap and a simple closure bar locks it.3,4
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Compact and waterproof
The T3 comes compact, lightweight, waterproof and vacuum-sealed.3
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Who makes it today
First Care Products Ltd. of Rosh HaAyin, Israel, is the FDA-registered manufacturer and lists the Tactical Trauma Treatment Bandage with FDA.5 Safeguard Medical acquired PerSys Medical in 20218 and sells the T3 by the case of 100.4
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A pressure dressing is its own job
A bleeding-control kit carries four products for four jobs: a tourniquet, packing gauze, a pressure dressing and a chest seal. The T3 is the pressure dressing — with a second pad and extra gauze — and does not replace the tourniquet or the hemostatic gauze. Deep and junctional wounds are packed first; never pack the chest or abdomen.
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It frees your hands
Direct pressure with your hands starts bleeding control fastest: a systematic review found manual pressure reached hemostasis sooner than pressure dressings, at very low certainty.12 The T3's job is to take over that pressure on one or two wounds so you can move on.
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It can end up too tight
When 124 emergency providers applied pressure dressings over sensors, Israeli bandages produced the highest peak pressures and passed 250 mmHg in 28% of applications; how tight providers thought they had wrapped did not match the measurement.11 Check circulation below the bandage and loosen it if the hand or foot turns cool, blue or numb, or loses its pulse.7
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FDA listing and Clinical evaluation
FDA lists the T3 under product code GAX, nonpneumatic tourniquet: Class I, exempt from 510(k).6 The Evidence-Based Standard Devices & Adjuncts list has no pressure-bandage category, so the T3 is not evidence-based standard;2 absence from the list does not by itself mean a product was tested and failed.
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Eight years, and a cold-weather version
Shelf life is 8 years.3 Safeguard rates its cold-weather (CWG) versions for −40 °C to +60 °C (−40 °F to 140 °F) for up to 7 days;4 the cold-weather T3 is FCP-T3CWG, NSN 6510-01-659-8311.4,10
How to apply the T3
The TCCC pressure-bandage sequence, adapted for two wounds.
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1Tourniquet first for a limb bleed it can control. Life-threatening bleeding from an arm or leg gets a tourniquet. Under threat, or when you cannot see the source: hasty — high and tight, over clothing. Once the wound is exposed: deliberate — on bare skin 2–3 in. above the wound, never across a joint.1
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2Find every wound. Expose and look for an exit wound and any other injury — sweep the back and under the body, where wounds are easy to miss.1
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3Pack a deep or junctional wound. Power ball first, directly on the bleeding vessel, every corner packed tight. Hold pressure at least 3 minutes for hemostatic gauze, or its labeled time;1 at least 10 minutes for plain gauze; or until the bleeding stops — best practice is to hold until someone relieves you. Never pack the chest or abdomen.
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4A pad on each wound. Place the main pad on the first wound or its packing. For a second wound, detach the second pad and place it there; for one large wound, use it to expand the dressing.3
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5Wrap through the applicator and back. Wrap the leader around the limb with short tugs, feed it completely into the pressure applicator, then reverse it back over the top to drive the applicator onto the pad.7
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6Cover the pads, lock the end. Wrap tightly until the pad edges are covered, then hook the closure bar into the leader.7
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7Check below it. Check color, warmth, feeling and the pulse below the bandage. Cool, bluish or numb skin, or a lost pulse, means it may be too tight: loosen it and re-secure it — on a limb where no tourniquet is intended.7
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8If it soaks through. For a shallow wound, or one under the bandage that is not deep enough to pack, leave the bandage in place and add the T3's gauze and pressure on top. A packed wound that keeps bleeding is different: remove the packing, find the source, and repack.1
Where it fits
- Entry and exit wounds of a limb — a pad on each3
- Multiple or large wounds that need more than one pad3
- Holding pressure over a packed groin, armpit or deep limb wound
- Covering a traumatic amputation once the tourniquet is on1,3
- A pressure dressing when a trained provider converts a limb tourniquet1
- Life-threatening limb bleeding a tourniquet can control — tourniquet first1
- Replacing hemostatic gauze in a deep wound — the T3's gauze is plain
- Packing into the chest or abdomen — never
- Open chest wounds, entry or exit — a vented chest seal on each hole, or a non-vented seal if no vented seal is available1
The evidence
The studies below tested the Emergency Bandage design and pressure dressings as a class; the T3 shares the design's pressure applicator and closure.
| Study | Evidence type | What was studied | What it found |
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| Shipman & Lessard, Mil Med 2009 | Human · pressure measurement | Emergency Bandage with and without its pressure bar on the arm; sensors under the bar and at 90°, 180° and 270° around the limb | The bar raised pressure directly under it without raising it elsewhere; fingertip refill and wrist pulse stayed adequate — no full tourniquet effect |
| Brauckmann et al., Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg 2026 | Simulation · pressure sensors | 124 emergency providers (116 analyzed) applying pressure dressings of their choice over calibrated sensors | Israeli bandages highest peak pressure, 205 ± 98 mmHg; above 250 mmHg in 28% of applications vs 11.1% medium-stretch and 1.6% elastic bandages |
| Charlton et al., Prehosp Emerg Care 2021 | Expert review · systematic review | 107 studies, 22,798 patients, of first-aid bleeding control; 8 studies of pressure dressings, bandages or devices | Direct manual pressure reached hemostasis faster than pressure dressings or devices; certainty of evidence very low |
| Paulson et al., Med J (Ft Sam Houst Tex) 2021 | Human · combat registry | 29 combat casualties treated only by battlefield first responders, Prehospital Trauma Registry 2003–2019 | A pressure dressing was the most common intervention (12), ahead of limb tourniquets (4) and hemostatic gauze (2) |
Strongest to weakest: human data, then simulation, with the review weighing very-low-certainty studies. Shipman tested the Emergency Bandage's pressure bar; the registry and review data cover pressure dressings as a class.11,12,13,14
How it compares
The T3 beside the single-pad Emergency Bandages.
| T3 (FCP-T3) | 4 in. (FCP-01) | 6 in. (FCP-02) | 8 in. Large Wound (FCP-09) | |
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| Sterile pads | Two, 4 × 7 in. (10 × 18 cm) each — one expands or detaches | One, 4 × 7 in. (10 × 18 cm) | One, 6 × 7 in. (15 × 18 cm) | One, 12 × 12 in. (30 × 30 cm) |
| Gauze in the package | 4 × 29.5 in. (10 × 75 cm) | — | — | — |
| Elastic wrap (manufacturer figure) | 4 × 145 in. (10 × 370 cm) expanded, OD green | 145 in. (370 cm), black | 145 in. (370 cm), black | 8 in. wide; 75 in. (190 cm) unstretched, including the pad |
| Pressure applicator | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes — can be bypassed over eviscerations |
| NSN | 6510-31-017-2058 | 6510-01-460-0849 | 6510-01-492-2275 | 6510-01-532-6656 |
| evidence-based standard | No | No | No | No |
T3 and 8 in. figures from PerSys Medical;3,17 4 in. and 6 in. figures from Safeguard Medical.15,16 The evidence-based device list has no pressure-bandage category.2
Build the system
The tourniquet and gauze that come first, the single-pad and large-wound Emergency Bandages, a chest seal, a wrap, a trainer and a kit.
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