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General Topics => Health, Fitness, and First Aid => Topic started by: changemyoil66 on June 25, 2019, 02:25:14 PM

Title: Switching to Combat Gauze
Post by: changemyoil66 on June 25, 2019, 02:25:14 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtCVo-MQH_o

Didn't know the military stopped using celox powder or the sponge a while ago.

No tampons either.

Title: Re: Switching to Combat Gauze
Post by: zippz on June 25, 2019, 02:51:05 PM

I was issued combat gauze in 2008.

Title: Re: Switching to Combat Gauze
Post by: drck1000 on June 26, 2019, 10:02:39 AM

Believe Gunny Swagger was the last known use of the granule form of the hemostatic agent in 2007.

 ;D

Title: Re: Switching to Combat Gauze
Post by: changemyoil66 on June 26, 2019, 10:06:38 AM

Quote from: drck1000 on June 26, 2019, 10:02:39 AM

Believe Gunny Swagger was the last known use of the granule form of the hemostatic agent in 2007.

 ;D

And only guy to waste perfectly good beef stew.  Guess he never have mac salad.

Title: Re: Switching to Combat Gauze
Post by: DesertRangerTycho on July 01, 2019, 08:26:25 AM

Quote from: changemyoil66 on June 26, 2019, 10:06:38 AM

And only guy to waste perfectly good beef stew.  Guess he never have mac salad.

I suspect standard procedure was to use the clotting agent in conjunction with regular gauze.  The advent of combining the hemostatic agent into the gauze was a definite innovation, however, clotting agents could still be used when coupled with standard packing if that was all you had. 

Title: Re: Switching to Combat Gauze
Post by: DesertRangerTycho on July 01, 2019, 08:30:45 AM

https://jts.amedd.army.mil/index.cfm/committees/cotccc/guidelines

Here are the actual combat guidelines and an article testing the effectiveness of different combat gauzes. 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23883900