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.