The most effective tourniquet on the market!

With the introduction of new tourniquet technology gone are the days of wasting precious seconds fumbling around with a stick and a piece of cloth while your buddy bleeds out trying to improvise a tourniquet. Nowadays every soldier on the field has a Combat Application Tourniquet or C.A.T. So now the question is why dont you have one? You would be foolish to say you would never need one as those are meant for warzones. Live is pretty much a constant battle and you never know what may happen to you or someone near you. Having one of these in your first aid kit is a must!

Enter the North American Rescue Combat Application Tourniquet. The latest tourniquet replaces the Gen 6 with the new Gen 7! This tourniquet is no stranger to veterans of every branch who carried them when they deployed overseas and even continue to do so long after they have left the military.

Tourniquets are simple in function and cost nearly nothing to produce. They can be improvised in any environment and have been since the time of the ancient greeks. With the simplicity of a band looped around a limb and a rod to twist it. Pressure is applied equally above the wound to stop traumatic bleeding. This prevents exsanguination or bleeding to death which is the most common cause of potentially survivable deaths on the battle field.  Since its introduction in 2005, The Combat Application Tourniquet decreased the mortality rate due to extreme exsanguination by 85 percent according to the makes of the Gen 7 tourniquet.

North American Rescues C.A.T. 7 is the Official Tourniquet of the U.S. Army which has been proven to be 100% effective in occluding blood flow in both upper & lower extremities by the U.S. Army’s Institute of Surgical Research. The C.A.T. 7 Features a Single Routing Buckle which is a direct response to in-depth reviews of field and testing reports. Featuring a new single-routing buckle system, the C•A•T® GEN7 allows for simpler and faster application with more efficient slack removal resulting in decreased blood loss with fewer windlass turns, and simplified training with single protocol application standards. It Includes reinforced windlass, stabilization plate, windlass clip and writable windlass security strap and features NAR’s signature Red Tip Technology elliptical tab providing added visual clues during application

Of course this would be completely useless if you did not know how to use it. North American Rescue even thought of that and provided several videos on proper application of the Combat Application Tourniquet. Though a YouTube video would never be a good substitute for actual training it is better than nothing at least until you can take the proper courses.

 

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