Sterile Compressed Gauze for Emergency Wound Dressing, First Aid and Trauma Kit, 6 Pack

I teach trauma first-aid classes and am always looking for aids to help teach my students in realistic scenarios. This gauze is an economical way for students to learn how z-fold gauze is used in packing wounds without breaking the bank. Buying compressed z-fold gauze is great, but if you ever need to actually use it then you need to be familiar with how to deploy it from the package. My students get a packaged gauze and a silicone trauma trainer so they can understand how to open the package and find the "end" of the gauze BEFORE they have to use it in an emergency. Teaching the thumb-over-thumb method is way easier using the real deal gauze. Students get some hands-on experience to help ingrain the knowledge and understand that just having the gauze doesn't mean you know how to use it. This is the same gauze that I keep in my personal IFAK and home first-aid kits. I trust it, I've trained with it and I've trained others with it. It's good stuff.

These are great for building your own IFAK vs. buying a ready made IFAK that has a ton of junk you don't need or want. You certainly can't beat the price.

Standard compressed bandages. Arrived quickly and in good condition.

Perfect size for my ifak.

Great value and packaging. Good amount of gauze in each pack and works grate for my ifak.

I didnt give this a perfect score yet, because I have not used on a wound. I the gauze seems consitenet with the good ole US dressings and possibly the Israeli. I have three of these in my med kit now. Think they should do well.

I am not an EMT or medical professional so let's get that out of the way. But neither are you if you are reading reviews for wound dressing on Amazon. That said, after some local classes on hiking/bush craft medical techniques, I learned the importance of having sterile wound dressing on hand. Although in a pinch you can rip up t-shirt material and stuff strips in a wound, it's likely a t-shirt will be dirty and may introduce bacteria into a deep wound. Ideally, you have a RHINO RESCUE compressed gauze package in your pack, or in your car, or your house if you're at home. That's why a multi-pack comes in handy. We've packed one of these into our med packs in each car, in our hiking packs and in our home medical supply cabinet. We opened a package as part of a test scenario, and it does rip open fairly easily/quickly without scissors or a blade using the tear marks. The gauze is highly compressed into a sort of brick that unfolds as you pull out the gauze from the package. You continue to pack it into the wound tightly while keeping finger pressure on the gauze as you continue packing to fill the cavity. The gauze helps to provide a surface to apply pressure to the underlying artery or source of the bleeding. It absorbs the fluids but the primary value is to give you something to press on top of the source of bleeding. Maintain that pressure for at least 3 minutes, or if possible until professional medical service arrive. Bleeding out is a serious risk that can be mitigated with just a bundle of this gauze and fingers applying pressure. The RHINO RESCUE Multipack leaves no reason to run into a situation without this life saving tool. This dressing is NOT hemostatic, which entails an additive chemical that is meant to create clotting to slow bleeding. However, from what I learned, there is actually no statistical advantage shown between the outcomes of using plain gauze versus one with a hemostat in it, which are typically much more expensive and they do expire. I would rather have multiple sterile gauze packages than a single more expensive package with a hemostat.

Good thing to have for your trauma kit.