Reliance Medical Traumafix Sterile Dressing Pad, High Absorbency, Ideal for Trauma Care and Major Bleed Trauma, Single Unit, 15cm W x 18cm

Haven’t had to use it for real but have used at First Aid training event

A must for the first aid box

This is one of the items that is missing from most first aid kits. Every first aid kit I own or where I work I ensure has a trauma bandage. These ones are cheap but well made and does the job.

Easy to use and stopped the bleeding pretty well following a fall onto edge of shuttering

Hopefully will never need it... 😂😎

Thought it would be a good idea to note that inside the packet on the picture, the bandage comes within an air-tight/shrink-wrap bag (sterile I presume). The block that applies the pressure is within the bandage and about the size of a zippo lighter. The bandage stretches from either side of this, with one end much shorter than the other to aid application - we easily put this on to our own limbs ourselves.

Thankfully not had to use this and hopefully never will ?. However it seems well packaged and its handy to have one of these in the home and car it could save a life or at least buy the time for the ambulance to arrive. So assuming it works how its described I'd suggest everyone needs one in their first aid kit.

It's good to have it in my first aid kit. Nothing else to add. Hopefully, I won't have to use it!