re: Med Kits

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Would you speak to the idea of a tampon being useful in a GSW or severe bleed?

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No. Because it's such a horrible idea it doesn't bear discussion. I am also betting you are trolling me. The internet almost burned down last month when an allegedly competent "expert" (turns out he was full of it) opined that tampons had a place in a trauma kit. So many real experts piled on this guy that it almost caused some message boards to crash. It was pretty brutal. Any mention of tampons can cause people to be banned to this day.

I will add this though. The purpose of a tampon is to absorb and wick blood away. That's the OPPOSITE of what we want a pressure dressing to do. You want the wound to clot. We do that by keeping blood at the wound site so the clotting factors in the blood can do their thing. The other main purpose of a pressure dressing is to put pressure on the wound and protect the wound from further contamination. Tampons don't do any of these things.