Ever Ready First Aid Israeli Battle Dressing Compression Bandage, 6", Black

I bought this bandage in 2016 while working in my former capacity in law enforcement to keep in my cars medical kit. It’s now 2024 and I thank god I bought it all those years ago. My dog fell down a set of stairs and ended up with a deep puncture wound in her jaw and neck. I was able to use this successfully for bleed control and to stabilize the packing material I stuffed into the wound. The packaging kept it fresh and dry after all these years and the fabric was unaffected by the 8 years of sitting idle.This bandage saved my dog, and I plan to buy a replacement.

This is an amazing addition to a kit. I've added two of these pressure bandages to a basic trauma/odk along with Celox, Swat-t tourniquet, trauma shears/rescue hook, medical gloves, gauze, tape, etc. It is cheap enough that you can get one to open and practice with--don't worry about the wrinkly picture instructions on the package, it is vac-sealed so when you open it, you can easily flatten it out then for easy looking at. Also, don't freak out if you buy from Shy in Israel here and Amazon tells you its going to take forty or more days to get to the US. It takes about two weeks, he's awesome. Also, it has a massively long expiration date--no, it doesn't need one but you know government red tape, so as long as it remains vac-sealed, it will be fine. No, it doesn't have Celox or other clotting solution in it--that would give it an expiration date of about three years only--so if you want a clotting agent, get one to go with it. I recommend Celox because it doesn't have the negative effects of Quik Clot. These bandages are light, fit into kits easily, are waterproof, last hugely long, and give you the chance to save a life. And they are cheap. Awesome.Put these in your car kit, your main house kit, with your BOB, your commuter/workplace kit, and in your outdoor fun stuff (hunting, backpacking, you name it). Heck, put it in your animal/animals' kits. Be really responsible and do up a trauma kit to go with it. With long emergency response times, city budget cuts, personnel shortages, and the increase of violent people out there, being ready to take care of yourself or someone else could mean everything.So, in a nutshell, this is an essential part of your kits.

Have you ever cut off anyone's finger? I did. It was a landscaping accident. I was cutting hedges with gas powered hedge-trimmers and my best friend stuck her hand in from the other side in an attempt to pick up the clippings. I promptly amputated her finger. Fortunately, my first aid kit, which always contains several Israeli Battle Bandages was just a few paces away in my vehicle. I quickly applied the bandage which instantly stemmed the bleeding. The finger was still attached by just a small bit of skin and what (we later found out) was a blood vessel. The bone was fractured. After I bandaged her finger in place, we began the journey to seek professional medical assistance. We went first to two close-by walk-in "Emergency Care Clinics"--they were on the way to the hospital. Both clinics turned us away saying the wound was too severe--thereby increasing the time to professional care. Lesson learned. Finally, we made it to the emergency room. Once there, the physician removed the bandage. The bleeding had essentially stopped. (Total time from injury to hospital was 20 minutes.) Because of the bandage my best friends finger was re-attached and saved. The finger looks a little strange and is a bit stiff, but still functions quite well. Oh, that best friend....she's my wife. The bandage not only saved a finger, but probably a marriage; LOL. Money well spent indeed.

Not for wound packing...If you need to do that i beleive you pack the wound cavity with normal gauze then youd apply this over the top.. Or not at all.Pretty sure if you wound pack with this it will cut off blood supply.. Not good..Pretty handy thing if you habe alot of surface bleeding and need it stopped.Also FINALLY got to try super glue when i decided to try drilling the tip of my finger with a razor sharp forsner bit. (Thanks for keeping your tools sharp dad ;)Super glue works amazing. Zero sting.. Can form a kind of cast over the skin as well to prevent bumps and re opening.Also butterfly stitches..F The hospital.. They just steal your money. And i dont care what you say. They arent hero's and theres no magic to it. They are doing their jobs.. Most of them are just soaking up a paycheck. Theres a few that carry the weight of the staff. Its scary how much misleading or blatently wrong info i hear there sometimes.I mostly blame our "educational" institutions. They are Cr*p these days.

Actually had to use this on a recent camping trip due to a 3 inch deep puncture on patients thigh. It did a very good job of controlling bleeding and a nice wide surface area on the bandage to distribute the pressure and not constrict any tissue. Emergency room technicians were very impressed with the performance of the bandage and that we had the wherewithal to properly implement in such a remote location. The doctor who treated the wound attributed the bandage and its proper use to the expected positive outcome of the injury. This was confirmed weeks later when stitches were removed and again the attending physician attributed the successful healing and minimal scarring to the same. These bandages are not cheap but this is one area you do not want to skimp on when a situation arises where this type of bandage is needed. Very highly recommend this product. We now keep several of these in various places just in case. Better to have it and not need it, than need it and not have it.