Wound Packing Gauze

Plain gauze is not a CoTCCC-recommended product and carries no such annotation here. What the CoTCCC guidelines do address is the technique: wound packing with gauze and direct pressure for hemorrhage a tourniquet cannot reach, with hemostatic gauze — QuikClot Combat Gauze, Celox, ChitoGauze PRO — recommended for life-threatening junctional bleeding. This product is the plain-gauze option, and the distinction between the two matters when you are deciding what to stock. Two timing figures appeared on the legacy page and are worth separating by source: 'maintain direct pressure for 3 minutes minimum after packing' was published as a best-practice note on the listing, not attributed to a manufacturer IFU or to a specific TCCC guideline paragraph, and it is reproduced here only as that unattributed note. Compression time in your protocol is what governs, and the CoTCCC-published compression times for hemostatic products differ from those for plain gauze — check the source you actually operate under rather than this page. Nothing here states an indication, a wound-selection rule or a packing technique; those are trained skills. The NSN above is as published on the legacy listing.

Combat and tactical medics packing penetrating wounds where a tourniquet is not applicable — junctional, torso, neck · EMS and fire first responders carrying wound packing as a standard consumable · Law enforcement and active-threat responders with gunshot and stab wounds in the patrol kit · Instructors and Stop the Bleed / B-CON programs, where packing gauze is the skill-enabling consumable and consumption is high · Trained civilians and range personnel pairing packing gauze with a tourniquet.

Stock it by consumption, not by kit count: one cavity can absorb a full length, and a casualty with more than one wound will exhaust a single pack quickly. If your protocol calls for a hemostatic on life-threatening junctional bleeding, this is not that product and should not be stocked as though it were — carry both, and know which is which in the dark. Wound packing is a trained skill: recognising when packing rather than a tourniquet is indicated, finding the source, packing to the bleeding point and maintaining pressure are taught in TCCC, Stop the Bleed and B-CON curricula and are performed under your training and your local protocol. This page describes the product; it does not teach the technique and is not a substitute for the course.