Originally Posted by
Doc Torr
Gauze is packable too, so you can stuff it into a wound and go. As far as the "case" against QC...I've never given two red bananas for whether I made a nurse have to debride a wound that had to be cleaned out anyway, since quikclot use always meant a life, limb, or eyeball was being saved. Same reason I'll put duct tape on a wound over the bandage if it's the best thing to do at the time.
Sounds like the article was targeted at folks who blew rule one. If you have a piece of gear in your kit, you better know how to use it right.
ETA: Chitosan. Kinda new to me, newish to the market, and I haven't trained on it yet, but it appears that it does the same or better than QC or QC gauze, and does not need to be scraped out of the wound afterwards. I'm looking to get soem training with it, but the idea of getting straight spun chitosan gauze in a z-folded package is awesome, since it doesn't rely on normal clotting factors to get the job done.
Just another product to consider.