SWAT-T Tourniquet Orange 2 Pack, Emergency First Aid Equipment for Massive Hemorrhage Control, Made in the USA

On a full grown adult, these are not as effective as a CAT tourniquet for arterial bleeds. With that being said, the SWAT-T can be a better choice for pediatric patients or service dogs as they hold better on funnel shaped limbs (and fur). They can also serve as a pressure dressing over gauze pads/trauma dressings. They are also more compact that most alternatives.Downsides: they can be tricky to apply correctly especially with copious bleeding, wet hands etc. It helps to wrap first wrap just tight enough to stay and then wrap tightly (make the printed diamonds into squares).As always…. Train before you need it!There is no mechanical advantage(such as a windlass) in these tourniquets. You must wrap extremely tight to occlude blood flow.

The SWAT-T is one tourniquet that you do not have to worry about something breaking. Very easy to apply to another person, assuming you have the strength to stretch the rubber band. Each subsequent wrap has an additive effect for applying pressure. A quick search of YT will show a police officer attempting to put on a CAT TQ on a small child with great difficulty due to small diameter of child's arm.Our church has a number of SWAT-Ts in their first aid kit and I carry two while serving as a monitor at my grandson's K-8 school. One SWAT has been cut in half to increase the number that can potentially be treated, the other left intact.The reason for the 4 star rating for "Easy to Use" is that trying to self-apply the SWAT on an arm is challenging, I use my teeth to immobilize the leading edge. Practice using it before you actually have to apply it to your own arm. Applying to your own leg is not too difficult, but again practice before you have to use it for real.

I threw one of these into each of my cars and trained my family how to use them. You never know when you'll need it and it can be used for much more than a tourniquet.

It's light weight and small, I can take it with me, no mater what I'm wearing. Cheaper than other tourniquets.

First I’ll say have a CAT TQ on hand if you want or need a TQ. Yes you can use this as a TQ as intended but it’s really multi use for me. If you need a TQ for a child this would work. It can also be used as a pressure bandage. Could be used in smaller animals if badly injured too. Nice and compact for pocket carry. The only downside to me is it’s packaged in a plastic material with precut openers but if you get any blood on your hands prior to opening it may be an issue. You can open it and have it folded but its consistency may make it more difficult to pull out of a pocket and it may unfold. I think it’s a good tool to have and understand how to use it when or if needed.

A note on most of the Cat 5 and similar tourniquets you find on Amazon are complete fakes. A real CAT tourniquet should run you 30-50 dollars a piece but the market is flooded with non functioning fake ones that snap under tension.The SWAT T in my opinion are far more dynamic and useful and are better suited for animals, children and other medical or emergency uses.A few years ago when I was working in security I deployed a SWAT T on a small boy who had cut himself on glass inside a swimming pool on his wrist (his mother had a glass of wine on the deck that was nocked over and as he was pulling himself out of the pool he dragged his wrist across the broken glass) and the bleeding simply would not stop. I was able to get the tension I needed with the SWAT T by wrapping it SEVERAL and I mean several times.When EMS arrived they were really grateful for the fact that I had a SWAT T tourniquet because the size of the kids arms would not have been possible to deploy a CAT tourniquet because there would have been too much of a gap between the strap and the torque toggle.Ive also used one on a sprained ankle while hiking.They may not be the fastest to deploy like a CAT tourniquet but I think for their compactness and versatility these are far better options than the CAT.

With a serious wound, a person could bleed out in the time it takes an ambulance to arrive, even in a city. Look into the "Stop the Bleed" class, and be ready.

Good to have for a backup tourniquet and great overall piece of gear to have in a first aid kit.These are original and arrived after a couple days.

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