Tourniquets, 2-Pack Single-Handed Spinning Tourniquet, Reinforced Windlass Rod, Combat Medical First Aid Application, Emergency Rescue Rapid Bleeding Control Equipment

Son wanted me to have one of these in each vehicle and at home. Because you never know!

I recently went shooting with a LEO friend. He turned me on to the idea and I can't believe I didn't think of it myself. Ya never know when this might come in REAL handy. Stuff happens - be prepared.

Well constructed and looks great in the package. That’s about as far as many will take it. If you don’t get training, it’s best to keep it in the wrapper. Hopefully none of us will ever have to apply any first aid outside of ointment to bumps and scrapes.

The materials are just a little light, but seem to be adequate. One never knows until it's time to use them. I may use one for training purposes just to see. If it holds up, I would buy more.

Recently returned another brand and ordered more of these after comparing them side by side. This windlass remains stiff when torque applied, and buckle has no flex to it. I have not used this to save a limb yet, but have purchased from multiple other suppliers in the past and these offer a noticeable quality for the price.

Doesnt fit in a standard tourniquet pouch for duty belts

Great product. Works as described !!

Purchased this for our annual safety event giveaways. Easy to use and added to a first aid kit purchased.

I hope you never have to use one. Catastrophic blood loss is scary; both for the person its happening to & all seeing it. So any tourniquet must be practised so that its second nature to use in a stressful situation; either on yourself or others. It also has to be stored somewhere close at hand if you're likely to need it, either on the outside of your first aid kit, or so its the first thing that comes to hand when the first aid kit is opened.The "𝙏𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙩𝙨, 1-𝙋𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝙈𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙈𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙮 𝙍𝙚𝙨𝙘𝙪𝙚 𝙎𝙥𝙞𝙣𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙏𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙩,𝙊𝙪𝙩𝙙𝙤𝙤𝙧 𝙀𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙮 𝙁𝙞𝙧𝙨𝙩 𝘼𝙞𝙙 𝙎𝙪𝙥𝙥𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙨,𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙘𝙠𝙚𝙧 𝙒𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙨 𝙍𝙤𝙙,𝙊𝙣𝙚-𝙃𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙙 𝙊𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣" from "𝘽𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙖𝙞" has been designed for rapid application, either to a patient or to yourself, & with a little practice can be done one handed.The main strap is 3' 1²³⁄₃₂" / 94.99ᶜᵐ long so should fit around the limbs of all but the largest people. The end of the strap has been coloured red & rounded off as well as being stiffened to stop curling. This is so you can find it quickly & get it through the specially designed buckle with ease. Once it has been positioned correctly the large easy to grab "windlass" handle is easy to grab & apply torque to.; been with bloody/slippy hands. It's been designed to be strong so there is no worry of it snapping [with adrenaline going through your system you may be stronger than you think] Personally I'd have liked a little more knurling/texture on the surface as blood can be really slippy. Once tightened there is an open loop for locking the handle in place then another strap to go over the top. This is white with a place to write the time it was applied. There are differing thoughts on whether a non medical trained person should be periodically loosening off a clamp on a femoral artery bleed or not. I'll leave that one to your training & conscience. [Its like the large wound dressings we used to carry in forestry when using chainsaws. Chances are if it was bad enough that you were applying it... chances were you actually didn't because you wouldn't last long enough to reach hospital.]It really is important to get first aid training to go along with carrying such a device, & to keep that training up to date. With both the training & the tourniquet you could save a life one day, even your own. It's a well made tool & its built well enough that it'll withstand repeated training with it. They are also light. compact & inexpensive enough [only £10.99] that you could get a second one; some situations require using them in tandem.

I recall my early days in first aid – never use a torniquet and that they were for cowboy movies. I used to think I would rather lose a limb than my life with a catastrophic bleed. Now they are back and in a much better form than an old leather belt.My last first aid training course a few months back, the mantra was get it on, crank it on and keep it on. There were questions about releasing it to prevent the limb dying, but if the femoral artery is severed, blood aint getting to the toes! However, before you use this, get some advice and training as incorrect use could easily go wrong one way or another.The use is simple and it can be done on your own arm if you had to; wrap it around the limb, thread the end through the buckle, pull tight and stick it back onto itself, then use the plastic rod and wind it up. If it isn’t hurting, you are probably not tight enough. Crank the bar until the bleeding is stemmed, it will hurt and it can pinch the skin, but better that than death. The rod tucks into a ‘C’ shape receiver to prevent it unwinding, then a Velcro strap over that to secure it. Note the time on the strap and you are hopefully going to save a life. The belt is tough and I have put this on my own limbs for practice. I got it to the point where I stopped blood in leg and arm. At no time did I think anything was going to snap. I was then very glad to get it off!Hopefully you will never need one, but if you do need one, you will be thankful you have it. It is light weight, takes up very little space in a kit and is a life saver. However, I must reiterate, you really should get some first aid training before you use this to ensure you place it on the limb in the right place and tighten it correctly.

Every first aid kit should have one or more.With training and -SAFE- practice this is a truly life saving bit of kit.Better than many other tourniquets out there are definitely better than any improvised tourniquet this is, with practice easy to use even in the high stress scenario it is intended for. It can even be self applied and will adjust wide to go over any sized limb and deploys in seconds.With the rise in threat from violent attacks around the world and their utility in any situation where high blood loss from a limb is encountered tourniquets are a sad necessity that anyone and everyone should learn and be trained in their use. Even without the risk of violent events, hemorrhage is often preventable in a limb with the right bit of kit like this on hand.Many deaths that occur pre hospital due to hemmorage may be preventable with the right first aid with the UK Red Cross stating "up to 39 per cent of these prehospital deaths [sic] injury might have been preventable".It used to be that tourniquets were the purview of paramedics and the military but sadly that reality has changed.I highly recommend everyone gets and is trained in the use of such first aid kit.

I probably wouldn't have thought of buying a tourniquet myself, but when one came up on Vine it seemed liked a good emergency item to have in the first-aid kit. There's no adhesive to dry up and nothing to expire, so you can keep it around and hopefully never need it. I had to try it out since, of course, you don't want to be learning on the spot, and it was quite easy to use. Make sure you draw the main strap up tight as you can before you start to wind the windlass: the latter has only a certain amount it can tighten so if you start too loose you may not be able to staunch the flow when needed. I did manage to pinch myself once so a few practice goes to avoid that in an emergency is probably in order (a small design change might make solve this). The only improvement I could wish for is an included pen of some kind that allows you to easily mark the time when the tourniquet is applied: I'd hate to be scrambling for a proper pen at an important moment. OTOH, something like that could dry up, so in a way it would be hard to make as reliable as the tourniquet itself. I look at this as an insurance premium for a policy you never collect on.

I hope to never have to apply it but have it in my glove box in addition to a few other medical kit items should I come across anything on a drive, having been trained in numerous elements of advanced first aid these can certainly be valuable and save a life - if used correctly, and for the right reason.Having used a few different models over the last few years this seems to be of a similar quality and includes the time strip to write the application time onto (though I'd use a Sharpie and write it on their head with a big T next to the time.The material seems strong, was easy to self-apply too and does the job