QuikClot is very nice. I had the opportunity to use the 2013 formulation for the first time last weekend when someone in my kitchen was cleaning a blender with their finger. The blender was not unplugged and, well, turned on. Their finger had multiple deep lacerations down to the adipose tissue. (Fortunately this was not me!)
As one of the other posters in this thread said, the 2013 formulation is impregnated dry gauze. It worked very quickly to stop the bleeding with no heat--the top left of the package, in fact, is labeled "heat free."
We ended up going to the Palo Alto Medical Center's urgent care clinic and they applied glue instead of stitches because of the lacerations' proximity to the fingernail. The nurse was surprised I had QuikClot on hand and mistakenly thought it worked by "cauterizing the wound."
The downside is the price, about $40 for the combat gauze I used.
As one of the other posters in this thread said, the 2013 formulation is impregnated dry gauze. It worked very quickly to stop the bleeding with no heat--the top left of the package, in fact, is labeled "heat free."
We ended up going to the Palo Alto Medical Center's urgent care clinic and they applied glue instead of stitches because of the lacerations' proximity to the fingernail. The nurse was surprised I had QuikClot on hand and mistakenly thought it worked by "cauterizing the wound."
The downside is the price, about $40 for the combat gauze I used.