5 Field Tourniquets You Can Buy On Amazon Tested and Reviewed!
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- čas přidán 13. 12. 2022
- Are you looking for a safe and reliable way to stop bleeding? If so, check out these 5 Field Tourniquets I bought on Amazon and decide which one is right for your medical kit.
The one I like: amzn.to/3FRFX1M
The best built NAR CAT: amzn.to/3VQ7IgV
The cool little carrying case: amzn.to/3uNwHpl
The integrated scissors case: amzn.to/3iWwMEh
These tourniquets are perfect for emergency situations where you may need to stop bleeding quickly. I've tested them and decided which one is my favorite! If you're looking for a tourniquet that's going to help you in a tough situation, then be sure to check out these 5 Field Tourniquets Reviewed!
Please do more videos like these Doc. You can contribute a lot to emergency prep and safety.
Thanks for the encouragement! I will!
Great video. Thanks for sharing this great information. Severe bleeding is an often overlooked life threatening situation. Way back in the Stone Age when I was a flight medic, we didn’t have commercial tourniquets, so we used a BP cuff inflated to the point bleeding stopped. Now I carry CAT tourniquets in all of my medical bags.
sphygmomanometer will definitely do the trick! I should have mentioned that (I carry one of those as well!)
Great information Doc! Sorry I missed the premier! This is something I do not have in my med kit but I do now! Ordering one tonight.
Glad to hear it! Hope to wheel with you soon and see it!
You are potentially saving lives. Thank you for making videos like this.
Thanks! More to come!
Thank you ! for being so clear and gave us such precious informations. really appreciate ! 😀
Glad it was helpful! Stay safe out there!
This is great, thanks! I’m in the process of buying Emergency Preparedness supplies for our community and this was super helpful.
Awesomeness! Hit me up with any questions…I need to do more of these 🤔
This was a great video doc! Really like that you included the note about storing/fine motor skills. Thanks!
Thanks friend!
Thanks for the info! I’m going to add one to my rig!
You bet! Always good to have one (or two!)...I should've mentioned that sometimes two are needed to control a bad situation...
Great vid thank you!
Will definitely be putting one in my rig
Awesome! Keep it safe!
Great video, keeping the time strap off is a great tip!
That fine motor movement is a bear when the adrenaline is pumping...gotta keep it easy!
I really appreciated this information and how it was delivered. I was about to order one when I thought I'd better watch some comparison videos first. Glad I discovered your channel.
Glad it was helpful! What should I do next?
You clearly have a great deal of content on your channel. I may have a suggestion or two once I get caught up.
@@dennisthemenace2726 nice! Thanks again for the encouragement!
Great informative video! keep 4 North American Rescue CAT torniquets on the rig (1 on each visor and 1 per First Aid Kit (2) plus a SOFTT torniquet on my person. All of them are easy to reach. Would love to see more videos like this. Keep up the great work Doc!
Thanks man! Sounds like you’re prepared for some serious paintball injuries! 😂😂
Informative video! Jason and I are picking some up now for our rigs.
Right on! Hope to never see you use them!
This was helpful!
awesomeness!
One of the best tourniquets I’ve ever used and haven’t been able to find since was the recon medical C.A.T style/clone, had an aluminum windless with a pin in it, and a hole in the strap so if your hands are slick you can easily grab and hook a finger in.
Nice, I definitely like the aluminum windlass
Very helpful - thank you!
Thanks friend, let me know if you have any questions!
Nope - just bought two. Concerned about the "knock-offs" breaking or not getting circumferential restriction, but looked at a few other videos, and these seem to hold up well in demos. Just been out of the medical arena too long. Really appreciate the advice 👍
That’s cool, I’m also a MD, but I retired. Useful and Great info!
Thanks! Do you carry one?
Thank you. Rev
👍🏼👍🏼
I have a few of the Amazon tourniquets in my kits. I know most folks frown upon that. Great content doc
I haven't been able to break them...I guess the concern is that quality control might be lacking and maybe some inferior products make it to market...but I haven't seen that
@@DocWrangler I appreciate it.
Which brand did you buy ?
Thanks for the tips and demonstration. I'm thinking about buying dark Angel brand.
Glad it was helpful! I haven’t heard of the Dark Angel brand 🤔
Good info DOC
Awesome! Do you have one?!
@@DocWrangler of course DOC.
Hi coach Ian this is Carter I love your videos and football!
Glad you like them! Looking forward to our spring season! Let's practice this week!
Hi Doc, have you ever tried a ratcheting tourniquet? I like the idea because it seems to take the stress of winding, while wounded and possibly with bloody hands, out.
I haven’t used them…any you’ve seen?
Great video. Wish links worked…
Thanks, working on it!
If you're short on cash Rhino Rescue actually makes quality ifaks. I bought a few on eBay because they were brand new and I got them for $20 each. Figured I'd just use them to refresh my training but after opening and checking one out I was pleasantly surprised and kept on and gave one to my friend
good stuff, thanks!
Any thoughts on the SOF tourniquet? Just ordered a couple of those from TacMed Solutions.
Haven’t played with them…will look into them!
I would like to hear your opinion on the tacticon armament tourniquet I can't find many videos on them
I haven't had one to play around with, but I like their ads! :)
Your link doesn't work.
Thanks, working on it
You should have added the B-1 Tourniquet in this video
I don't know the B-1...this was reviewing one's I found on amazon...I'll order the B-1 from their website and check it out!
I like the RATS, bungee style tq’s. What’s your opinion on those? Thanks
Hey, former SWAT medic and TCCC officer instructor here: don’t use a RATS. In testing, they don’t reliably stop arterial blood flow. Also, the width of the band is so tiny, you’ll get SIGNIFICANTLY increased pain and soft tissue damage underneath at the site of placement.
I know increased pain doesn’t seem like a big deal, but it is when the guy loosens their TQ “just a little” so it doesn’t hurt as bad, and the bleeding just starts up again. 2 inches of width is the CoTCCC standard, and it’s actually for pretty good reasons.
Take that advice from a random person on the internet as you will ;)
@@benjamindowdy8168 thanks! How about the swat-t?
SWAT-T is potentially pretty good…as a disclaimer, I’ve trained with them a fair bit but not actually applied one to a patient. Biggest thing; they’re a bitch to apply to yourself. I can eventually get one around my leg, but I’ve never been able to fully appropriately apply one to my arm. On the plus side, they’re cheaper than a CAT or SOFT-T, smaller cube space and for wilderness applications are multi-function. I keep them in all my first-aid kits to apply to other people.
I’d never use one at work (because it’s not Co-TCCC approved) or for self-application. But I keep them in my personal kits to apply to someone else, and in the MASCAL bag they lives in my trunk.
@@benjamindowdy8168 thanks again! Do you have a channel? You seem quite knowledgeable and I’d like to learn from you!
Thanks! I don’t…maybe one day though. I don’t have much to offer beyond what others here have to 🤷♂️
If you are in the wilderness alone, and need to put on the tourniquet, whats the plan with no medical help? thanks
Great question, the tourniquet is meant as a bridge from the field to medical care, medical care is not an option then, knowing how to fix the injury is the only solution, but that is a whole lot of training!
yeah, so would have to loosen it periodically to stop muscle damage, and hope your interventions and natural blood clotting eventually work. @@DocWrangler
Have you heard about FR19 Fora Grup turkish tourniquet?
No, I’ll have to look into it!
No TK4?
It's the best EDC tourniquet. Low profile, effective, inexpensive, easy to self applicate, and easy to use on others. Safe for use on kids and even animals.
I carry 1 on my and I also carry a SWAT-T and a pack of Cellox Gauze. The SWAT-T can be used as a second tourniquet or as a pressure dressing, sling, ect. The TK4 is for the need to stop bleeding NOW! role.
I haven’t used the TK4, but I worry that it’s not as effective as these are
@@DocWrangler
Well I used it in testing only but it stopped not only my distal pulses but everyone else's that it was applied too.
So I have confidence in it as long as it is applied correctly. Which, is the single most important aspect of any tourniquet.
Like James Yeager used to say, when applying a tourniquet. "apply high or die, and tight is right. And if you are not sure if it's tight enough then it's not.".
Wouldn’t purchase any TQ from Amazon though, the CAT ones in particular have been cloned and some of those clones that have been tested have broken when being applied. To me $30 is a very small price to pay for the insurance they provide and NAR ships fairly quickly
Not going to disagree…I haven’t seen the failures on the $10 models, but I hear that out there.
would have liked to see you bending the windlass bars... because if that breaks/bends... your Dead. And that the main gripe with these cheaper TQs
I'll see if I can break some...sounds like a follow-up video!
I don’t think you’ll care about the skin being pinched by a tourniquet after you’ve been shot man 🤣
😂😂 that said: pinched = damaged over time…
I can’t seem to find the furlove on amazon
haven't looked in a while..dunno
I've seen people compare the CAT to the Rhino tourniquets and the Rhino seems to be slightly better constructed and easier to tighten than the CAT. By the way, Rhino tourniquets are not made in China, they are made in Germany and the way I understand it they are also used by German military forces.
Good stuff, thanks!
@@DocWrangler My pleasure.
Just a headsup, the Rhino Rescue TQs are made in Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, China according to the manual that comes with the TQs. Definitely not Germany - a production in Germany would double, if not triple the price.
@@PineSurveyThanks for the heads up. I don't recall where I saw they were made in Germany but regardless of where they're made, I guess the real question is what do you think of them?
@@thriftysurvivor6117 can't say yet. Literally got the first batch yesterday.
WHat is your opinion of the R.A.T.S tourniquet?
I haven't had a chance to use it
In the 90's we used rope and a stick for a field tourniquet 😂
Still works! 😂🤣
@@DocWrangler thanks because I thought I was losing my mind.
What about tourniquets that are on Amazon that are obvious fakes and made so cheaply that the windless bends under pressure or even breaks?
I didnt find any like that…but sounds bad!
You really didn’t give an option on the rhino
thanks, definitely could have given clearer ideas here...I like the rhino, it may not be any better than the no-name brand models, but I would definitely feel good carrying it
This video would have saved an hour of instruction in a CERT class, maybe more- and leave more time for hands on training.
Nice! Glad to be helpful!
A Good Tourniquet IS a Torniquet!! If it is Bleeding, then it NEEDS Help!
I agree! Having one is the most important factor!
We have $3-5 torniquets
Made of high quality chinesium 😂
lolz
I have to critique your demonstration a little bit. Most of the time when you applied a TQ you did it wrong. You have to put it as tight as possible before twisting. That's why the first TQ is pinching you. Also the way you folded the remaining strap isn't very good either. It's very easy to come undone. When you applied it to the leg it was way too low. It's suppose to be "high and tight". Maybe you just don't know the proper way of doing it or you assume that people will figure out how to do it but if you're going to show how to put on a TQ you might as well do it the proper way. Right now you risk of confusing people that don't actually know and teach them the wrong way. Remember that people put a lot more trust in you because of your title as a doctor. Also telling people to buy TQ from Amazon isn't very smart either because there are a lot of counterfit TQs there with questionable quality.
Good thoughts here. I think as long as bleeding is stopped, the tourniquet is doing the job. As for location - proximal to the injury is correct. There are locations that a tourniquet can’t compress (such as over a joint), but other than avoiding those areas, the “high and tight” approach may not always be the right approach. I would rather be compressing a site a few inches above the injury. Thanks for the thoughts, this is not intended to be a comprehensive tutorial on tourniquets, but rather a comparison of what’s out there. Stay safe!
If there is potential to lose the limb, seems like going closer to the point of injury would be more preferable to the patient. Assuming blood loss is stopped at either position.
DO NOT BUY THE 10 DOLLAR TQ'S YOU WILL DIE IF YOU BUY THOSE.
Why will they fail?
Very good video, doc! One thing that you should know that you shouldn't always trust all types of tourniquets. I've heard that the amazon tourniquets seem to snap and no longer work. I just prefer to use rhino rescue, CAT or a SOF-T. Either way, great video!!
I’ve definitely heard that as well, but I don’t think it’s actually true, I haven’t found actually examples of this